field boot

British

noun

a close-fitting knee-length boot

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His servant drops a field boot on to my stomach, trips over an empty biscuit-tin and is heard grooming a boot without.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 8, 1917 by Various

Another object thudded beside him—a leg, gray-clad and wearing a heavy field boot!

From Triplanetary by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)

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