top-boot
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.17 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of topboot.
Example Sentences
- "Mr Poyser had no reason to be ashamed of his leg, and suspected that the growing abuse of top-boots and other fashions tending to disguise the nether limbs, had their origin in a pitiable degeneracy of the human calf."
- "A very spirited affair it looked with its red body and yellow wheels, bouncing about on its high C springs [...] with its four horses going full stretch and two postilions in knee-cords and top-boots laying into the horses in a lather of dust and excitement."