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Verb
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butted, past tense; butts, 3rd person singular present; butting, present participle; butted, past participle;
  1. Adjoin or meet end to end
    • - the church butted up against the row of houses
    • - a garden that butted up to the neighbor's
  2. Join (pieces of stone, lumber, and other building materials) with the ends or sides flat against each other
    • - the floorboards will be butted up against each other to make tight seams
Noun
  1. A cask, typically used for wine, ale, or water

  2. A liquid measure equal to 2 hogsheads (equivalent to 126 US gallons)


  1. thick end of the handle
  2. border: lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland"
  3. the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots
  4. to strike, thrust or shove against; "He butted his sister out of the way"; "The goat butted the hiker with his horns"
  5. place end to end without overlapping; "The frames must be butted at the joints"
  6. a victim of ridicule or pranks
  7. An archery butts is an archery practice field, with mounds of earth used for the targets. The name originally referred to the targets themselves, but over time came to mean the platforms that held the targets as well. ...
  8. BUTT is a quarterly magazine for gay men, founded in 2001 and edited by Gert Jonkers and Jop van Bennekom. , it has an estimated worldwide circulation of 24,000.
  9. Butt is an English surname whose origins lie in the South West Peninsula region of England.
  10. In shipbuilding, a butt is the joint between two planks on the outside of a ship, under water. Hence, when a plank is loose at one end, sailors called it springing a butt; to prevent which, ships were usually bolted at the butt-heads, that is, at the plank's end.
  11. Butt (بٹ) or Bhat (भट) is a Kashmiri surname, common among people of Kashmir and Punjab in Pakistan.
  12. The butt (from the medieval French and Italian botte) or pipe is an old English unit of wine casks, holding two hogsheads (approx. 475 to 480 litres). A hogshead varied in size but today (in the U.S.A.) is most commonly 63 US gallons (7 firkins; ca. 238.5 litres), so a butt is now (in the U.S.A. ...
  13. The buttocks; used as a euphemism, less objectionable than arse/ass; The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts; Body; self; A used cigarette; The larger or thicker end of anything; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp end; as, the butt of a rifle. ...
  14. (Butts) A term applied to certain hinges, usually of the large type.
  15. (Butts) Area behind a raised mound with an underground trench to allow.
  16. (Butts) Cigarettes (Vengeance, 25)
  17. (Butts) The traditional term for hinges.
  18. (butts) sheltered area behind and below Rifle Range targets
  19. An old English unit of wine casks, equivalent to about 477 litres (126 US gallons/105 imperial gallons).
  20. Any backstop to which a target face is attached.
  21. an underweight bale of greasy wool in a standard wool pack.
  22. The end of a crosse opposite the head. All shaft ends need to be covered with a butt-cap.
  23. Buttocks, bottom, also cigarette.
  24. the un-extruded portion of the billet remaining in the container after the profile cycle is completed. The butt varies in thickness depending upon the billet condition. The butt is sometimes also called heel.
  25. A short or irregularly shaped strip of land in an open (pre-enclosure) field, or one that lies at right angles to other strips.