▪ I. † ˈbooting, n. Obs. Sc.
In 6 boting.
[f. boot n.3]
‘A half-boot or leathern spatterdash’ (Jamieson); perh. collective for boots.
| c 1505 Dunbar Flyting 212 Thow bringis the Carrik clay to Edinburgh Corse, Upoun thy botingis. |
▪ II. † ˈbooting, vbl. n.1 Obs.
[f. boot v.1 + -ing1.]
1. Relieving, curing, healing, helping; payment to the good; service, avail.
| c 1300 K. Alis. 5711 The kyng..Yaf al his folk betyng [v.r. botyng]. 1426 Audelay Poems 15 Our Kyng..That mai us salve of oure sore, oure botyng to us bryng? c 1440 Promp. Parv. 45 Botynge or encrese yn byynge, licitamentum, liciarium. 1591 Harington Epigr. ii. (1633) 98 But let alone, Lynus, it is no booting. |
2. Comb. † booting-corn. See quot.
| 1670 Blount Law Dict. s.v., The Tenants..paid Booting Corn to the Prior of Rochester..Perhaps it was so called, as being paid..by way of Bote..or compensation to the Lord, for his making them Leases, etc. |
▪ III. † ˈbooting, vbl. n.2 Obs.
Also Sc. 6 buting, butting.
[f. boot n.2 or v.2 + -ing1 : but sense 1 seems to have begun as a misunderstanding of butin ‘booty’, mistaken for a vbl. n. in -ing.]
1. Booty, plunder; = butin.
| a 1572 Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 79 Small butting thei caryed away. 1597 Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae xv, Quhair flew ye, quhom slew ye, or quha brings hame the buting? c 1600 Rob. Hood (Ritson) i. iii. 3 I'll tell you of a brave booting That befell Robin Hood. |
2. Taking of booty, plundering: cf. freebooting.
| 1651 Hobbes Govt. & Soc. xiii. §14. 203 Under the notion of Booting or taking prey. |
▪ IV. booting, vbl. n.3
(ˈbuːtɪŋ)
[f. boot v.3]
a. Torture with the boot (see boot n.3 3). b. Punishment of being beaten with a boot (see boot v.3 3).
| 1678 Phillips (App.) Booting, a sort of torture among the Scots. 1805 Sir R. Wilson Diary 30 Dec., I directed the most culpable to receive a booting from their comrades. |