Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK Und.) boots.

1889

Clarkson & Richardson Police! 321: A pair of boots ... Stamps, prints, noisy pegs.

(UK Und.) stealing brass knockers from doors.

1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

a person who steals china or glass from a china shop.

1861		H. Mayhew London Labour and London Poor IV 25: Those who purloin goods, provisions, money, clothes, old metal, &c. [...] vi. ‘Noisy-racket Men,’ or those who steal china and glass from outside of china-shops.
1882		Sydney Sl. Dict. (2 edn) 6: Noisy Racket Men - China and glass shop thieves.