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Correct. It'san older term for boots impregnable to water.
Those are actually two different etymologies/meanings. Amazingly, the word "impregnable" itself has two meanings, which are kind of the opposite of each other.
See etymology 1 and 2 here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/impregnable
For "impregnate", it lists the meaning "to fill pores or spaces with a substance" under the same etymology as knocking someone up (which is etymology 2 above): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/impregnate