English Dictionary

boots

/buːts/

noun

(dated) A servant at a hotel etc. who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes. / (UK, naval, slang) The ship in a fleet having the most junior captain.

I bought a new pair of boots.

意味（1）

(dated) A servant at a hotel etc. who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.

The old beggar ran up and down in his tattered toga, acting as both boots [translating Hausknecht] and waiter.

意味（2）

(UK, naval, slang) The ship in a fleet having the most junior captain.

[…] he sent on the 22d. Vice-Admiral Rook into it, with several Men of War and Fire-Ships, besides the Boots of the Fleet, to endeavour to destroy them: […]