Boot.

I will give you that to boot, i.e. in addition. The Anglo-Saxon boot or bõt means “compensation.” (Gothic, bôta, profit.)

“As anyone shall be more powerful … . or higher in degree, shall he the more deeply make boot for sin, and pay for every misdeed.”—Laws of King Ethelred.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Book
Book of Books (The)
Book of Life (The)
Books
Book-keeper
Book-keeping
Bookworm
Boom
Boom-Passenger (A)
Boon Companion (A)
Boot
Boot-jack
Boots
Boots (an instrument of torture)
Boots
Boots
Boots at an Inn
Bootless Errand
Boötes (Bo-o-tees)
Booth
Boozy