(construction) A flexiblecover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.
(obsolete) That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense
“Looking out, tumblers in hand, we watched as the waves slid over the causeway, smoothing away our bootprints and the already fading tracks of the funeral cars.”
“Their bootprints turned to face the thicket of briar and bramble in exactly the same place mine had.”