(carpentry) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
(shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
(leather trades) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
(English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 winegallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe.
A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
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I played a sentence or two at my butt, which I thought very smart.
Come on and butt that cigarette and let's get inside, I'm freezing!
Fimpa den där cigaretten nu så vi kan gå in, jag fryser!
L’apparition d’une rangée de soldats faisant résonner leurs crosses de fusils sur le pas de notre porte, causa une certaine confusion parmi les convives.
And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground.
Two harmless lambs are butting one the other.
...I escap'd upon a butt of sack which the sailors heav'd o'erboard...
Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons. –
To prove who gave the fairer butt, / John shows the chalk on Robert's coat.
The handcuffed suspect gave the officer a desperate butt in the chest.
Be careful in the pen, that ram can knock you down with a butt.
Get up off your butt and get to work.
He's usually the butt of their jokes.
The hay was growing upon headlands and butts in cornfields.
The groom his fellow groom at butts defies, / And bends his bow, and levels with his eyes.
The inhabitants of all cities and towns were ordered to make butts, and to keep them in repair, under a penalty of twenty shillings per month, and to exercise themselves in shooting at them on holidays.
To which is fixed, as an aim or butt...
Here is my journey's end, here is my butt / And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.
We can't chat today. I have to get my butt to work before I'm late.
Get your butt to the car.
When the woman in the dress was sitting with her legs up, I could see up her butt.