"jack boot" meaning in English

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          "text": "This I think necessary to remedy by the scale herewith sent, by which your readers will perceive, that though it is a little larger than a jack boot, as that was necessary for the circumambient steam, yet that it is by no means so large as not to be easily portable, more especially as the pneumatic parts take off, and can be easily placed along with the biler into the inside of the cylinder, and the whole enclosed in a neat mahogany box.",
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          "ref": "1930, Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams, Herbert Treadwell Wade, The New International Encyclopaedia - Volume 3, page 536:",
          "text": "Meanwhile the jack boot, as it is called, had become indispensable in the costume of cavalry soldiers and horsemen generally; and it was regularly adopted in England by William III and his followers. Strongly made, the jack boot extended in length above the knee, was wide at the top, had a very high heel, and around the ankle had a flat leather band, by which a powerful spur was attached.",
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          "ref": "2013, Richard Maxwell Brown, Don E. Fehrenbacher, Tradition, Conflict, and Modernization: Perspectives on the American Revolution, page 54:",
          "text": "Opposite to the pillory were erected four ladders, with cords running from one ladder to another, on which were hung a jack boot, an axe, and a bonnet; the last with a label, Scotch bonnet; the boot and the bonnet, after remaining there some time, were burnt, the tops of the boot having been previously chopped off.",
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          "ref": "1988, Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Ralph Caplan, William Aldersey, New American Design: Products and Graphics for a Post-industrial Age, page 63:",
          "text": "I won't say she imagined SS men jack booting through her life, but I believe that for some time she and a large number of my friends had secretly felt that I was capable of a radical personality change, that my purchase on reality was just thin enough to let me jump the groove.",
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        {
          "ref": "1988, Brij Mohan Toofan, When Freedom Bleeds: Journey Through Indian Emergency, page 23:",
          "text": "The spirit will never bear any jack booting.",
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          "ref": "2006, Journal of Social Sciences - Volume 13, Issues 1-3, page 63:",
          "text": "Harassing of voters at polling booths including beating and jack booting thereby infiinging on their human rights.",
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          "text": "Meanwhile the jack boot, as it is called, had become indispensable in the costume of cavalry soldiers and horsemen generally; and it was regularly adopted in England by William III and his followers. Strongly made, the jack boot extended in length above the knee, was wide at the top, had a very high heel, and around the ankle had a flat leather band, by which a powerful spur was attached.",
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          "ref": "1988, Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Ralph Caplan, William Aldersey, New American Design: Products and Graphics for a Post-industrial Age, page 63:",
          "text": "I won't say she imagined SS men jack booting through her life, but I believe that for some time she and a large number of my friends had secretly felt that I was capable of a radical personality change, that my purchase on reality was just thin enough to let me jump the groove.",
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          "ref": "1988, Brij Mohan Toofan, When Freedom Bleeds: Journey Through Indian Emergency, page 23:",
          "text": "The spirit will never bear any jack booting.",
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          "text": "Harassing of voters at polling booths including beating and jack booting thereby infiinging on their human rights.",
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