Butt

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Butt \Butt\, But \But\, n. [F. but butt, aim (cf. butte knoll),
     or bout, OF. bot, end, extremity, fr. boter, buter, to push,
     butt, strike, F. bouter; of German origin; cf. OHG. b[=o]zan,
     akin to E. beat. See {Beat}, v. t.]
     1. A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
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              Here is my journey's end, here my butt
              And very sea mark of my utmost sail.  --Shak.
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     Note: As applied to land, the word is nearly synonymous with
           mete, and signifies properly the end line or boundary;
           the abuttal.
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     2. The larger or thicker end of anything; the blunt end, in
        distinction from the sharp end; as, the butt of a rifle.
        Formerly also spelled {but}. See 2nd {but}, n. sense 2.
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     3. A mark to be shot at; a target. --Sir W. Scott.
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              The groom his fellow groom at butts defies,
              And bends his bow, and levels with his eyes.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     4. A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed;
        as, the butt of the company.
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              I played a sentence or two at my butt, which I
              thought very smart.                   --Addison.
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     5. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an
        animal; as, the butt of a ram.
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     6. A thrust in fencing.
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              To prove who gave the fairer butt,
              John shows the chalk on Robert's coat. --Prior.
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     7. A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
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              The hay was growing upon headlands and butts in
              cornfields.                           --Burrill.
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     8. (Mech.)
        (a) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely
            together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also
            called {butt joint}.
        (b) The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to
            which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and
            gib.
        (c) The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of
            a hose.
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     9. (Shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake
        meet.
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     10. (Carp.) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; --
         so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which
         butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like
         the strap hinge; also called {butt hinge}.
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     11. (Leather Trade) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned
         oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
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     12. The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the
         targets in rifle practice.
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     13. The buttocks; as, get up off your butt and get to work;
         -- used as a euphemism, less objectionable than {ass}.
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     Syn: ass, rear end, derriere, behind, rump, heinie.
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     {Butt chain} (Saddlery), a short chain attached to the end of
        a tug.
  
     {Butt end}. The thicker end of anything. See {But end}, under
        2d {But}.
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              Amen; and make me die a good old man!
              That's the butt end of a mother's blessing. --Shak.
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     {A butt's length}, the ordinary distance from the place of
        shooting to the butt, or mark.
  
     {Butts and bounds} (Conveyancing), abuttals and boundaries.
        In lands of the ordinary rectangular shape, butts are the
        lines at the ends (F. bouts), and bounds are those on the
        sides, or sidings, as they were formerly termed.
        --Burrill.
  
     {Bead and butt}. See under {Bead}.
  
     {Butt and butt}, joining end to end without overlapping, as
        planks.
  
     {Butt weld} (Mech.), a butt joint, made by welding together
        the flat ends, or edges, of a piece of iron or steel, or
        of separate pieces, without having them overlap. See
        {Weld}.
  
     {Full butt}, headfirst with full force. [Colloq.] "The
        corporal . . . ran full butt at the lieutenant."
        --Marryat.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Butt \Butt\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Butted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Butting}.] [OE. butten, OF. boter to push, F. bouter. See
     {Butt} an end, and cf. {Boutade}.]
     1. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to
        terminate; to be bounded; to abut. [Written also {but}.]
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              And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered
              ground.                               --Drayton.
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     2. 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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              A snow-white steer before thine altar led,
              Butts with his threatening brows.     --Dryden.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Butt \Butt\, v. t.
     To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the
     head.
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           Two harmless lambs are butting one the other. --Sir H.
                                                    Wotton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Butt \Butt\, n. [F. botte, boute, LL. butta. Cf. {Bottle} a
     hollow vessel.]
     A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two
     hogsheads.
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     Note: A wine butt contains 126 wine gallons (= 105 imperial
           gallons, nearly); a beer butt 108 ale gallons (= about
           110 imperial gallons).
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Butt \Butt\, n. (Zool.)
     The common English flounder.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  butt
       n 1: thick end of the handle [syn: {butt end}]
       2: a victim of ridicule or pranks [syn: {goat}, {laughingstock},
           {stooge}]
       3: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he
          deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit
          on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: {buttocks}, {nates},
          {arse}, {backside}, {bum}, {buns}, {can}, {fundament}, {hindquarters},
           {hind end}, {keister}, {posterior}, {prat}, {rear}, {rear
          end}, {rump}, {stern}, {seat}, {tail}, {tail end}, {tooshie},
           {tush}, {bottom}, {behind}, {derriere}, {fanny}, {ass}]
       4: sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a
          marksman or archer to aim at [syn: {target}]
       5: finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking [syn: {cigarette},
           {cigaret}, {coffin nail}, {fag}]
       6: a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping
          [syn: {butt joint}]
       7: a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to
          2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)
       8: the small unused part of something (especially the end of a
          cigarette that is left after smoking) [syn: {stub}]
       v 1: lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins
            the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland" [syn: {border},
             {adjoin}, {edge}, {abut}, {march}, {butt against}, {butt
            on}]
       2: to strike, thrust or shove against, often with head or
          horns; "He butted his sister out of the way" [syn: {bunt}]
       3: place end to end without overlapping; "The frames must be
          butted at the joints"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  367 Moby Thesaurus words for "butt":
     Thule, Ultima Thule, abut, abut on, adjoin, advance, afterglow,
     afterimage, aim, ankle, articulate, articulation, assault,
     backside, bacon, balance, barrel, batten, batten down,
     be contiguous, be in contact, bear, bear upon, bearing, behind,
     bit, bitter end, bolt, boost, border, border on, bottom,
     bottom dollar, boundary, bowl, breech, buck, buckle, bull,
     bulldoze, bump, bump against, bunt, butt against, butt end,
     buttocks, button, by-end, by-purpose, byword, byword of reproach,
     candle ends, carton of cigarettes, cervix, chaff, chip,
     chitterlings, chump, chunk, cig, cigarette, cigarette butt,
     cigarette case, clasp, cleat, clinch, clip, clipping, closure,
     cochon de lait, collop, communicate, conjoin, connect,
     connecting link, connecting rod, connection, coupling, cracklings,
     cram, croup, crowd, crumb, crupper, cut, cutting, debris,
     deck of cigarettes, derision, derriere, destination, detritus, dig,
     dollop, dovetail, drive, driving force, dupe, elbow, embrace, end,
     end in view, extreme, extremity, fag, fag end, fair game, fall guy,
     fanny, farthest bound, fat back, figure of fun, filings,
     final cause, flitch, fool, force, forward, fossil, fragment, game,
     gammon, gazingstock, gliding joint, goad, goal, goat, gob, gobbet,
     gudgeon, gull, ham, ham steak, haslet, hasp, haunches, head,
     headcheese, hind end, hinge, hinged joint, hip, hitch, hogshead,
     holdover, hook, hunk, hurtle, husks, hustle, impel, impulsion,
     interface, interfere, interrupt, intrude, jab, jam, jambon,
     jambonneau, jest, jestingstock, jog, joggle, join, joining, joint,
     joke, jolt, jostle, jumping-off place, juncture, keg, kibitz, knee,
     knuckle, lard, latch, laughingstock, leavings, leftovers, lie by,
     limit, line, link, lock, lump, march, mark, meddle, meet, miter,
     mock, mockery, modicum, moiety, monkey, morsel, mortise,
     motive power, move, nail, nates, neck, neighbor, nib, nudge,
     object, object in mind, objective, odds and ends, offscourings,
     orts, paring, parings, particle, patsy, pedal, peg, picnic ham,
     piece, pieds de cochon, pig, pigeon, pile drive, pilgarlic, pin,
     pipe, pivot, pivot joint, point, poke, pole, pork, porkpie,
     posterior, prat, press, pressure, prey, prod, propel, propelling,
     propelment, propulsion, pulsion, punch, pursuit, push, pushing,
     quarry, quintain, rabbet, rags, ram, ram down, rasher, rattle,
     rear, rear end, reason for being, refuse, relics, remainder,
     remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, rivet, roach, roll, row,
     rubbish, ruins, rump, run, run against, salt pork, sawdust, scarf,
     scoop, scourings, scrap, scraps, screw, seam, sew, shadow, shake,
     shard, shaving, shavings, shiver, shoulder, shove, shoving, shred,
     shunt, side of bacon, sitting duck, skewer, slice, sliver,
     small ham, smithereen, smoke, snack, snap, snatch, snip, snipe,
     snippet, sowbelly, splinter, sport, stand by, staple, stick,
     stitch, stock, straw, stress, stub, stubble, stump, sucker,
     suckling pig, survival, suture, sweep, sweep along, sweepings,
     symphysis, tack, tag, tag end, tail, tail end, tamp, target,
     tatter, teleology, thrust, tie rod, tip, toggle, toggle joint,
     touch, toy, trace, treadle, troll, trotters, trundle, tun,
     ultimate aim, union, verge, verge upon, vestige, victim, waste,
     wedge, weld, wrist, zipper
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  BUTT. A measure of capacity, equal to one hundred and eight gallons. See 
  Measure.