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What does “boot” mean here?

I’m reading Kipling’s Kim, ch 2, pg 37 says

`Beggars aplenty have I met, and holy men to boot, but never such a yogi nor such a disciple,’ said the woman.

What does boot mean here, is it a verb or a noun and what’s the meaning?