startup

noun

Etymology: From start + up, describing a boot that starts up (reaches up) to the middle of the leg.

1. A kind of high-low or thigh-high boot worn by rustic people.

   “1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, London: Hugh Singleton, “Februarie,” Glosse, Galage) a startuppe or clownish shoe.”

   “But Hob and Iohn of the countrey they stept in churlishly, in their high startvps […]”

2. A kind of gaiter or legging.
3. One who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart.

   “That young start-up hath all the glory of my overthrow: if I can cross him any way, I bless myself every way.”