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boottree
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boottree, n. [Boot + tree wood, timber.].
An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven. [1913 Webster]
"The pretty boots trimly stretched on boottrees."
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