Bootjack

He backed away in search of the bootjack, making like it was all a big joke. ❋ Jack Todd (2010)

Mr. Grewgious, bolt upright as usual, sat taking his wine in the dusk at his open window; his wineglass and decanter on the round table at his elbow; himself and his legs on the window – seat; only one hinge in his whole body, like a bootjack. ❋ Unknown (2007)

‘All right,’ said the ‘Admiral,’ and off the thing thundered, like a fire – engine at full gallop, with the kidnapped customer inside, standing in the position of a half doubled – up bootjack, and falling about with every jerk of the machine, first on the one side, and then on the other, like a ❋ Unknown (2007)

On this particular evening the urgency of my case demanded a pint of this mixture, which was poured down my throat, for my greater comfort, while Mrs. Joe held my head under her arm, as a boot would be held in a bootjack. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I could have thrown my bootjack at him (it lay ready on the rug), for having entrapped me into the disclosure of anything concerning Agnes, however immaterial. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The fact is, that the “Royal Bootjack,” though a humble, was a very genteel house; and a very little persuasion would induce Mr. Crump, as he looked at his own door in the sun, to tell you that he had himself once drawn off with that very bootjack the top-boots of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the first gentleman in Europe. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Having delivered himself of this solemn preface, he brought the bootjack. ❋ Unknown (2006)

An unrolled parchment map of the Dextral Mountains lay on a low table between them, held open by a decanter of ardent spirits, a silver bootjack, a heavy jeweled dagger, and a candlestick. ❋ May, Julian (2003)

He wedged his right heel into the bootjack to yank off his riding boot. ❋ Walters, Minette (2002)

"Except for the week you pouted and treated me like something smelly you might scrape on the bootjack." ❋ Seymour, Ana (1996)

She used the bootjack to remove her muddy boots and kicked them into a paper-strewn corner of the porch. ❋ Janet Daily (1984)

And Boots could assure me -- which he did, touching his hair with his bootjack as a salute in the way of his present calling -- that he hadn't found it yet. ❋ Various (N/A)

A cast brass folding bootjack, resembling an old style percussion pocket pistol when closed. ❋ Henry W. Shoemaker (N/A)

I do not know that they ever became so annoying that the men had to resort to the cat-discouraging bootjack or soda bottle, but I do know that those Tukuran soldiers had so much venison that they would eat canned corned beef or bacon in preference. ❋ Florence Kimball Russel (N/A)

He placed a bootjack in the doorway for me to sit down upon. ❋ Various (N/A)

Man! Did you get some [trim] with that bootjack on! Eric bootjacked it, [all the way] across [the beach] to get some strange. ❋ C MART (2005)