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Hereditarily servile people in 17th-century Qing China
Booi Aha (Manchu: ᠪᠣᠣᡳ ᠨᡳᠶᠠᠯᠮᠠ (booi niyalma) for male, ᠪᠣᠣᡳ ᡥᡝᡥᡝ (booi hehe) for female; Chinese transliteration: 包衣阿哈) is a Manchu word literally meaning
Booi_Aha
Institution of the Qing dynasty of China
banners. Booi was sometimes synonymous with booi aha, which literally means "household person", but aha usually referred to the hereditary and legally
Imperial_Household_Department
Character in Alex Haley's ''Roots''
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Kunta_Kinte
Ownership of people as property
century Qing dynasty, there was a hereditarily servile people called Booi Aha (Manchu: booi niyalma; Chinese transliteration: 包衣阿哈), which is a Manchu word
Slavery
Consort of Qianlong Emperor (died 1736)
Banner, was a consort of Qianlong Emperor. Concubine Yi was a Han Chinese Booi Aha of Plain Yellow Banner. Her ancestral home was in Suzhou. Father: Daimin
Concubine_Yi_(Qianlong)
Empress of the Qing dynasty (1727–1775)
Xiaoyichun's personal name was not recorded in history. She was a Han Chinese Booi Aha of the Bordered Yellow Banner by birth. Father: Wei Qingtai (魏清泰), who
Empress_Xiaoyichun
Type of corporal punishment
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Figging
Form of child sexual abuse in Central Asia
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Bacha_bazi
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Sexual_slavery_in_China
Manchu title
"master and servant" in a household, Bannermen officials often used the term Booi Aha or Nucai (meaning "servant") for self-address at court when addressing
Ejen
American abolitionist (1822–1913)
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Harriet_Tubman
century Qing dynasty, there was a hereditarily servile people called Booi Aha (Manchu:booi niyalma; Chinese transliteration: 包衣阿哈), which is a Manchu word
Slavery_in_Asia
Free-born African American kidnapped by slave-traders
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Solomon_Northup
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Bell_(slave)
Whipping as a punishment
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Flagellation
Continent
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
South_America
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Red_Sea_slave_trade
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slavery_in_the_21st_century
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Venetian_slave_trade
Network for fugitive slaves in 19th-century U.S.
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Underground_Railroad
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slavery_in_the_Comoros
Human trafficking and fraud enterprises
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Scam_center
Cargo ship carrying slaves onboard from Africa to the Americas
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slave_ship
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
History of slavery in the Muslim world
History_of_slavery_in_the_Muslim_world
Chinese term for an obsequious person/minion/lackey
simply between ruler and subject. The equivalent Manchu term for nucai is booi aha. The exclusivity of the term nucai meant that ordinary Han Chinese officials
Nucai
Slavery with the intention of using the slaves for sex
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Sexual_slavery
Offensive term for a labourer from Asia
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Coolie
Compulsory enrollment into national or military service
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Conscription
Military and administrative divisions of the Qing dynasty
emperor. The transfer of families from Han Banners or Bondservant status (Booi Aha) to Manchu Banners, switching their ethnicity from Han to Manchu was called
Eight_Banners
Enslaved woman in colonial America (1630–1665)
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Elizabeth_Key_Grinstead
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slavery_in_Argentina
1865 amendment abolishing slavery
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Executive order by U.S. president Abraham Lincoln freeing slaves in the South
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Emancipation_Proclamation
Coerced labour, mainly in the southeast Pacific
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Blackbirding
Slave trade in Bukhara until the 19th century
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Bukhara_slave_trade
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slavery_in_Finland
Form of leg restraint
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Bilboes
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slavery_in_Indonesia
Slave markets in North Africa
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Barbary_slave_trade
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slavery_in_Malaysia
Kidnapping people to serve as sailors
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Shanghaiing
Consensual or punitive unpaid labor
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Indentured_servitude
Act of an enslaver freeing the persons they enslaved
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Manumission
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slavery in the Abbasid Caliphate
Slavery_in_the_Abbasid_Caliphate
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slavery_in_Jordan
Refugee enslaved woman, enslaved by George and Martha Washington
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Ona_Judge
Title character of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Uncle_Tom
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slavery_in_Bulgaria
9th-11th century enslavement of Slavic people between Central Europe and Islamic Iberia
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Prague_slave_trade
Act of the United States Congress
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1850
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slavery in colonial Spanish America
Slavery_in_colonial_Spanish_America
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slavery_in_France
19th-century organization in the United States
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
American_Colonization_Society
Practice of slavery in Muslim era Spain
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slavery_in_al-Andalus
American indentured servant and slave
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
John_Casor
Type of detention facility
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Labor_camp
Historical division of United States by legality of slavery
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slave_states_and_free_states
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slavery_in_Syria
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slavery_in_the_Ottoman_Empire
Chinese novelist and poet (1710–1765)
born to a Han Chinese clan that was brought into personal service (as booi aha or bondservants of Cigu Niru) to the Manchu royalty in the late 1610s.
Cao_Xueqin
Edict by Tsar Alexander II abolishing serfdom in the Russian Empire
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Emancipation_reform_of_1861
Slavery in the Middle East
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slavery_in_Palestine
Indentured servitude in certain French territories during the 18th to 19th century
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Engagé
10th-13th century Central Asian trade
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Volga_Bulgarian_slave_trade
Purported 1712 speech, a hoax
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
William_Lynch_speech
Haitian revolutionary and first ruler (1758–1806)
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Jean-Jacques_Dessalines
Chinese imperial consort (1660–1733)
personal name was Nalanzhu (Chinese: 納蘭珠, pinyin: Nà lán zhū) .She was a Booi Aha of the Plain Yellow Banner by birth.Her family was later a part of Bordered
Consort_Yi_(Kangxi)
Central Asian trade (17th century – 1873)
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Khivan_slave_trade
Committee of the United Nations
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Ad_Hoc_Committee_on_Slavery
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slavery in pre-Columbian America
Slavery_in_pre-Columbian_America
Female slave or concubine in an Ottoman seraglio
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Odalisque
Notion of attaining civil and political rights or equality
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Emancipation
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slavery_in_Hungary
Non-elite-commoner-women slavery in Ottoman times
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Avret_Pazarları
Slavery as a means to repay debt
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Debt_bondage
Slaves in Viking society
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Thrall
Torture device
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slave_iron_bit
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Khazar_slave_trade
President and emperor of Haiti (1782–1867)
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Faustin_Soulouque
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Black_Sea_slave_trade
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slavery_in_Albania
in the Western Qing tombs. Concubine Jian (簡嬪 關氏; d. 14 May 1780) was a booi aha of the Han Chinese Bordered Yellow Banner Guan clan. Her personal name
Consorts of the Jiaqing Emperor
Consorts_of_the_Jiaqing_Emperor
1856 novella by Herman Melville
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Benito_Cereno
People who tracked down slaves in Brazil
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slave_catcher_(Brazil)
Qing China consort (1660–1723)
lifetime. Empress Xiaogongren's personal name was Malu (瑪琭). She was a Booi Aha of the Plain Yellow Banner by birth. Father: Weiwu (威武), served as a third
Empress_Xiaogongren
1971 Italian mondo film by Franco Prosperi and Gualtiero Jacopetti
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Goodbye_Uncle_Tom
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
List_of_slave_owners
19th-century freed American slave
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Daniel_Bell_(freedman)
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Balkan_slave_trade
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slavery_in_Serbia
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Slavery_in_Kenya
Enslavement of people of European descent
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
White_slavery
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
The_Bible_and_slavery
System allowing a slave to buy their freedom
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Coartación_(slavery)
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Indian_Ocean_slave_trade
Economic phenomenon
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Exploitation_of_labour
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Nero_Hawley
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom
Timeline_of_abolition_of_slavery_and_serfdom
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
Indentured servitude in Pennsylvania
Indentured_servitude_in_Pennsylvania
African-American slave and member of the Lewis and Clark expedition
Haruwa-charuwa Human trafficking in Southeast Asia Bhutan Brunei China Booi Aha Eunuchs Laogai penal system India Debt bondage Chukri System Bawi system
York_(explorer)
travel, tourism, insurance
BOOI AHA
BOOI AHA
Boy/Male
English
House
Boy/Male
Tamil
Book
Girl/Female
Bengali, Hindu, Indian
A Desert Plant
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Old English bÄr ‘boar’, hence probably a nickname for a keen hunter of wild boar or for someone thought to resemble the animal in some way.Variant spelling of Boer.
Girl/Female
Hebrew
Devoted to God.
Boy/Male
Hungarian
God bless the King.
Boy/Male
Australian, Norse
Father of Bor
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Boon
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of boots, from Middle English, Old French bote (of unknown origin).Dutch and North German : metonymic occupational name for a boatman, from Dutch boot ‘boat’.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Granthana | கà¯à®°à®‚தநா
Book
Granthana | கà¯à®°à®‚தநா
Boy/Male
Biblical
In strength.
Surname or Lastname
English or Dutch
English or Dutch : variant of Boone.
Girl/Female
British, English
Holy Book
Girl/Female
Tamil
Book
Girl/Female
Indian
Dhara
Girl/Female
Christian, Hindu, Indian, Kannada
Book
Boy/Male
Hindu
Book
Girl/Female
Hindu
Book
Girl/Female
Indian, Tamil, Telugu
Great Boon
Girl/Female
British, English
Bright Fame
BOOI AHA
BOOI AHA
BOOI AHA
BOOI AHA
BOOI AHA
BOOI AHA
BOOI AHA
n.
Good; prosperous; as, boon voyage.
n.
A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee.
v. t.
To cause to advance rapidly in price; as, to boom railroad or mining shares; to create a "boom" for; as to boom Mr. C. for senator.
n.
A book with wide spaces between the lines, to give room for notes.
v. t.
To extend, or push, with a boom or pole; as, to boom out a sail; to boom off a boat.
n.
The book used by a prompter of a theater.
n.
A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of "Paradise Lost."
n.
A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc.
n.
An A-B-C book; a primer.
v. t.
To enter, write, or register in a book or list.
v. t.
To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater.
v. i.
To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.
n.
A boot with a short top covering only the ankle. See Cocker, and Congress boot, under Congress.
travel, tourism, insurance