a defence of leather for the foot and leg. Boots seem to have derived their name from their resemblance to a sort of jacks or leathern bottles formerly in use, called botas in Latin, and in the old French boute.

Boor, an instrument of torture, by which the leg was squeezed with great violence, for the purpose of extorting confession. (See Wodrow's Hist. of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland.)