Butt
[bʌt]
Definition
(noun.) thick end of the handle.
(noun.) the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking).
(noun.) a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons).
(noun.) a victim of ridicule or pranks.
(noun.) the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots.
(verb.) to strike, thrust or shove against; 'He butted his sister out of the way'; 'The goat butted the hiker with his horns'.
(verb.) place end to end without overlapping; 'The frames must be butted at the joints'.
Editor: Sonya--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) Alt. of But
(v. i.) To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
(v. i.) To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.]
(v. t.) To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.
(n.) A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.
(n.) The common English flounder.
Typed by Gus
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Mark, object, target, point aimed at.[2]. Laughing-stock.[3]. Stroke, blow.[4]. Cask.
v. n. Bunt, strike with the head or the horns.
Inputed by Eleanor
Definition
n. a large cask: a wine-butt = 126 gallons a beer and sherry butt = 108 gallons.
n. a mark for archery practice: a mound behind musketry or artillery targets: one who is made the object of ridicule.—n. Butt′-shaft (Shak.) a shaft or arrow for shooting at butts with.
n. an ox-hide minus the offal or pieces round the margins.
v.i. and v.t. to strike with the head as a goat &c.—n. a push with the head of an animal.—n. Butt′er an animal that butts.
n. the thick and heavy end: the stump.
Edited by Craig
Examples
- Stephenson laid down new rails at Killingworth with half-lap joints, or extending over each other for a certain distance at the ends, instead of the butt joints that were formerly used. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He straightened himself then, and I saw that what he held in his hand was a sort of gun, with a curiously misshapen butt. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He imitated the action of a man's being impelled forward by the butt-ends of muskets. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The butt and body are dovetailed together. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The sailor's hand crept slyly to the butt of one of his revolvers; his wicked eyes glared vengefully at the retreating form of the young Englishman. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- In the dark he had dragged it, butt first, to the lee of the rock wall. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- If tradition were a reverent record of those crucial moments when men burst through their habits, a love of the past would not be the butt on which every sophomoric radical can practice his wit. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The splint machines were for slitting a block of wood of the proper height downward nearly the whole way into match splints, leaving their butts in the solid wood. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He made the first metal lathe for cutting out the butts of gun-barrels. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Those can see thy cigarette butts, the woman said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There is no use, no heroism, in butting against the inevitable, yet nothing is entirely inevitable. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I am only waiting here till the enemy goes, returns Mr. Guppy, butting inward with his head. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- These military gentlemen are ungrateful to an invention which shoved and butted them into victory almost in spite of themselves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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