The Collaborative International Dictionary
Half-boot \Half"-boot`\ (h[aum]f"b[=oo]t`), n. A boot with a short top covering only the ankle. See Cocker, and Congress boot, under Congress.
Wiktionary
n. A boot with a short top covering only the ankle.
Usage examples of "half-boot".
This was a foot in a half-boot of very flexible black leather, laced tight to the ankle and calf, much worn and patched, not much larger than his own, attached to a leg in rusty black trews with worn places along the hem.
Clip-fitting britches tucked into soft leather half-boots, laced up the calf.
He wore loose trousers of black silk tucked into polished half-boots, and a gold-trimmed jacket of the same material cinched by a tooled-leather belt that bore revolver and chryselephantine dagger.
Still, he'd managed to keep his green undress uniform and half-boots free of foodstains, mud, and other unbecoming accretions.