boot-tree

The large boot-tree and latch-key on the circle beneath the handle predict a fortunate and unexpected gain in the near future.

Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves Cicely Kent

One officer received three parcels -- the first containing his keys which he had left on his dressing-table at home, the second, some sort of collapsible boot-tree, and the third, about a three years 'supply of

The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 David Douglas Ogilvie

Without him, they would have fallen apart, like the outer pieces of a wooden boot-tree.

Nocturne Frank Swinnerton 1933

Scrap fled with a sharp yelp as a boot-tree caught him just above the tail.

The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902

It was a piece of timber some eighteen inches in length, and looking like the section of a boot-tree, or the half of a wooden milk-yoke.

The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850

Alfred, your boot-tree, till I take the length of his muzzle, to teach him to come and play the Joe Miller at his age, old clown! "

Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 Eug��ne Sue 1830