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BOOT POLISHER

Specialty Definition: BOOT POLISHER

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Occupations

Cleans and polishes footwear for customers: Removes surface dirt, using brush. Removes grime and old polish or wax from leather footwear, using brush or sponge dipped in cleaning fluid or soapy water. Applies coating of polish by hand or using dauber, and polishes leather, using brushes and cloths. Buffs buck or suede footwear with sandpaper or wire brush to clean areas or raise nap. Applies liquid dressing or dry wax by hand or dauber, and brushes surface to remove excess. Applies liquid dressing to fabric areas of footwear to restore appearance of cloth. Coats edges of sole and heel with sole dressing, using dauber or sponge. May dye or tint footwear [SHOE DYER (personal ser.)]. May brush lint from patron's clothing, using whiskbroom. May assist customers with wraps. May sweep and mop floors, dust and polish furnishings, and wash windows. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: BOOT POLISHER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-h-i-l-o-o-o-p-r-s-t"

-2 letters: potboilers.

-3 letters: boltropes, heliports, portholes, potboiler.

-4 letters: biotopes, blithers, bloopers, boltrope, brothels, heliport, helistop, hoopster, hoplites, isophote, isopleth, loopiest, oestriol, philters, philtres, poitrels, polisher, porthole, posthole, potboils, potherbs, potholes, preboils, repolish, sorbitol, strobile, theorbos, trophies.

-5 letters: biotope, blister, blither, blooper, boilers, boleros, bolshie, bolster, bolters, boorish, booster, booties, bothers, bothies, bristle, bristol, brothel, eoliths.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BOOT POLISHER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 4F 4F 54      50 4F 4C 49 53 48 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01001111 01001111 01010100 00100000 01010000 01001111 01001100 01001001 01010011 01001000 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#79 &#79 &#84 &#32 &#80 &#79 &#76 &#73 &#83 &#72 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004F 004F 0054      0050 004F 004C 0049 0053 0048 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3649495425049464353423952

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