"jack-boot" meaning in English

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          "word": "jackboot"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1803, Charles Dibdin, The Professional Life of Mr. Dibdin - Volume 4, page 174:",
          "text": "Oh, damn your strops, I always strop my razor upon an old jack-boot.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1943, D. Barlone, A French Officer's Diary (23 August 1939-1 October 1940), page 113:",
          "text": "This is the sort of re/gime promised to those who are so weak as to remain under the jack-boot, not to speak of labour camps in France and perhaps in Germany and Poland;",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Charles Kingsley, Plays and Puritans, page 80:",
          "text": "He carried a Bible in his jack-boot: but did that prevent him, as Oliver rode past him with an approving smile on Naseby field, thinking himself a very handsome fellow, with his moustache and imperial, and bright red coat, and cuirass well polished, in spite of many a dint, as he sate his father's great black horse as gracefully and firmly as any long-locked and essenced cavalier in front of him?",
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        "Alternative form of jackboot"
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  "word": "jack-boot"
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    {
      "form": "jack-boots",
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        "singular",
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    },
    {
      "form": "jack-booting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jack-booted",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jack-booted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1946, Brian Charles Fitzpatrick, The Australian People, 1788-1945, page 150:",
          "text": "The squatters' Australia was a rough society of rugged wealth-seekers jack-booting their determined way over an unprivileged great majority.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, page 79:",
          "text": "Never was love more brutally jack-booted by power than in Belsen, Dachau, and Buchenwald.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard):",
          "text": "By jack-booting his way through the House with a guillotine motion and by denying its democratic rights, he is jack-booting his way through the security and peace of mind of 3 million private tenants, and he is destroying the housing hopes of hundreds of thousands of those who are in genuine housing need.",
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        }
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        "Alternative form of jackboot"
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  "word": "jack-boot"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jack-boots",
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        {
          "ref": "1803, Charles Dibdin, The Professional Life of Mr. Dibdin - Volume 4, page 174:",
          "text": "Oh, damn your strops, I always strop my razor upon an old jack-boot.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1943, D. Barlone, A French Officer's Diary (23 August 1939-1 October 1940), page 113:",
          "text": "This is the sort of re/gime promised to those who are so weak as to remain under the jack-boot, not to speak of labour camps in France and perhaps in Germany and Poland;",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Charles Kingsley, Plays and Puritans, page 80:",
          "text": "He carried a Bible in his jack-boot: but did that prevent him, as Oliver rode past him with an approving smile on Naseby field, thinking himself a very handsome fellow, with his moustache and imperial, and bright red coat, and cuirass well polished, in spite of many a dint, as he sate his father's great black horse as gracefully and firmly as any long-locked and essenced cavalier in front of him?",
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        }
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  "forms": [
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      "form": "jack-boots",
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    },
    {
      "form": "jack-booting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "jack-booted",
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        "past"
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    {
      "form": "jack-booted",
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        {
          "ref": "1946, Brian Charles Fitzpatrick, The Australian People, 1788-1945, page 150:",
          "text": "The squatters' Australia was a rough society of rugged wealth-seekers jack-booting their determined way over an unprivileged great majority.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, page 79:",
          "text": "Never was love more brutally jack-booted by power than in Belsen, Dachau, and Buchenwald.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard):",
          "text": "By jack-booting his way through the House with a guillotine motion and by denying its democratic rights, he is jack-booting his way through the security and peace of mind of 3 million private tenants, and he is destroying the housing hopes of hundreds of thousands of those who are in genuine housing need.",
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        }
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