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boot sb.2: “to give” (a person) “the boots,” to fool him Gent. I. i. 27*. ∥ Cf. ‘to give one the boots, to sell him a bargaine’ Cotgr. s.v. “Bailler.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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