Meaning of jack boot | Babel Free

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“This I think necessary to remedy by the scale herewith sent, by which your readers will perceive, that though it is a little larger than a jack boot, as that was necessary for the circumambient steam, yet that it is by no means so large as not to be easily portable, more especially as the pneumatic parts take off, and can be easily placed along with the biler into the inside of the cylinder, and the whole enclosed in a neat mahogany box.”

“Meanwhile the jack boot, as it is called, had become indispensable in the costume of cavalry soldiers and horsemen generally; and it was regularly adopted in England by William III and his followers. Strongly made, the jack boot extended in length above the knee, was wide at the top, had a very high heel, and around the ankle had a flat leather band, by which a powerful spur was attached.”

“Opposite to the pillory were erected four ladders, with cords running from one ladder to another, on which were hung a jack boot, an axe, and a bonnet; the last with a label, Scotch bonnet; the boot and the bonnet, after remaining there some time, were burnt, the tops of the boot having been previously chopped off.”

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