Butts
[bʌts]
Examples
- 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.
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