BUTT
\bˈʌt], \bˈʌt], \b_ˈʌ_t]\
Definitions of BUTT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland"
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place end to end without overlapping; "The frames must be butted at the joints"
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a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)
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a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping
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finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
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sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
By Princeton University
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lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland"
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place end to end without overlapping; "The frames must be butted at the joints"
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a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)
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a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping
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finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
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sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Alt. of But
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To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
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To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.]
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To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.
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A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.
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The common English flounder.
By Oddity Software
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Alt. of But
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To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
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To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.]
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To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.
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A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.
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The common English flounder.
By Noah Webster.
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A push or thrust delivered by the head of an animal; as, the butt of a goat; the thickerr end of anything; a target; an embankment back of a target to stop bullets; that at which anything is aimed; therefore, one at whom jest or ridicule is directed; as, the butt of a joke; a large cask. chiefly for wine; a certain amount of wine in a cask, usually 126 gallons.
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To strike with the head; to join end to end.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To strike with the head, as a goat, etc.
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The thick and heavy end: a push with the head of an animal: a mark to be shot at: one who is made the object of ridicule.
By Daniel Lyons
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The thick end of anything; a mark to shoot at; an object of ridicule; a large cask.
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To strike with the head.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To strike with or as with the head or horns.
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To project; jut; abut. but.
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To cut off the butt smoothly, as of a log.
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To cut through the butt of a log.
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The larger or thicker end of anything.
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A stroke or push with or as with the head.
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A large cask; a measure of wine, 126 U. S. gallons; a pipe.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [French] The larger end of a thing, as of timber; a limit;—a mark to be shot at;—one at whom ridicule, jests, or contempt age directed;—a push or thrust given in fencing or by the head of an animal;—a large cask, also called a pipe;—the thickest and stoutest part of tanned ox-hides;—a kind of hinge—used in hanging doors, &c.;—a piece of land left unploughed;—the metal ring at the end of the hose of a fire-engine.
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