boot

boot is a Noun

Definition:

[1] Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief. He gaf the sike man his boote. Chaucer. Thou art boot for many a bruise And healest many a wound. Sir W. Scott. Next her Son, our soul`s best boot. Wordsworth.

[2] That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged. I`ll give you boot, I`ll give you three for one. Shak.

[3] Profit; gain; advantage; use. [Obs.] Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot. Shak. To boot, in addition; over and above; besides; as a compensation for the difference of value between things bartered. Helen, to change, would give an eye to boot. Shak. A man`s heaviness is refreshed long before he comes to drunkenness, for when he arrives thither he hath but changed his heaviness, and taken a crime to boot. Jer. Taylor.