Hypertext Webster Gateway: "boottree"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Boottree \Boot"tree`\, n. [Boot + tree wood, timber.]
An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot,
consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between
which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven.
The pretty boots trimly stretched on boottrees.
--Thackeray.
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