Obs. rare. [a. F. boute-selle, f. bouter to put + selle saddle.] A trumpet-call, warning knights or cavalry to put on the saddle; = Boot and saddle: see BOOT sb.3 1 b.
1628. trans. Mathieu’s Powerf. Favorite, 136. At Executions, the Trumpets sounded the battaile, as the alarme, or the bouteselle [misprinted bonteselle], to go to death.
1649. G. Daniel, Trinarch., Hen. V., cli. The Towne-pent Rutters … attend to Bot et Selle.
a. 1658. Cleveland, Gen. Poems (1677), 8. The sprightly Chanticlere … Sounds Boutesel [v.r. Boot-esel] to Cupid’s Knight.
