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Verb
/bət/,
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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. (butt) thick end of the handle
  2. (butt) border: lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland"
  3. (butt) the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots
  4. (butt) to strike, thrust or shove against; "He butted his sister out of the way"; "The goat butted the hiker with his horns"
  5. (butt) place end to end without overlapping; "The frames must be butted at the joints"
  6. (butt) a victim of ridicule or pranks
  7. Butts is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Alfred Mosher Butts (1899–1993), inventor of the board game Scrabble * Anthony Butts (born 1969), American poet * Calvin O. ...
  8. 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. ...
  9. (Butt (asian surname)) Butt (بٹ) or Bhat (भट) is a Kashmiri surname, common among people of Kashmir and Punjab in Pakistan.
  10. (Butt (magazine)) 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.
  11. (Butt (sailing)) 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.
  12. (Butt (surname)) Butt is an English surname whose origins lie in the South West Peninsula region of England.
  13. (butt) 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. (Butt) Base of a tree; large end of a log.
  15. (Butt) 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.
  16. (Butt (Target Butt)) Any backstop to which a target face is attached.
  17. (butt) that part of the hide left after the bellies and shoulder have been removed.
  18. (Butt) The rear end of a rifle or shotgun stock (the part that rests against the shoulder). In a handgun, the bottom part of the grip.
  19. (Butt) An earthen mound used as a backing for a target. See Boss
  20. (Butt) The larger, exposed end of a shingle.
  21. (Butt) The lower part of the trunk of a tree close to ground level.
  22. (Butt) A door hinge with one leaf mortised or routed into the door frame jamb and the other into the edge of the door. The leaf of the hinge can be radiused or square. A standard residential interior hinge measures 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches when laid out flat. ...
  23. (3. Butt) This element is usually of Ostrich herl on the Atlantics but, can also be Peacock herl in some patterns.
  24. (BUTT) A general term for the base or bottom or heavy end of a feather, fibre, or material with different diameters in their respective ends; also, a segment of wool or herl wound on the shank to end or divide the body.
  25. (BUTT) Type of hinge allowing edge of door to butt into the jamb; a joint which fastens members end to end.