butt

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The larger or thicker end of something

   The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end

   • Get up off your butt and get to work.
2. 2

   The waste end of anything.

   • I walked around, picking butts from the street.
3. 3

   An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.

   • She was hit in the face with the butt of a shotgun.
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   1. 4

      A limit

      A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.

      • Here is my journey's end, here is my butt / And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.
   2. 5

      To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity

      To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.

      • And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground.
   3. 6

      To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.

      • Two harmless lambs are butting one the other.
   4. 7

      To strike bluntly with the head.

      • Rams butt at other males during mating season.
   5. 8

      To cut in line (in front of someone).

      • Teacher! He just butted me!
   6. 9

      A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head

      A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.

      • Be careful in the pen, that ram can knock you down with a butt.
      • The handcuffed suspect gave the officer a desperate butt in the chest.
      • Its noise attracted its outside mate, and the child gloried in its buzzing butts to get in.
   7. 10

      A thrust in fencing.

      • To prove who gave the fairer butt, / John shows the chalk on Robert's coat.
   8. 11

      An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half…

      An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun.

   9. 12

      A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.

      • […]I escap'd upon a butt of sack which the sailors heav'd o'erboard[…]
   10. 13

       Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot

   11. 14

       A heavy two-wheeled cart.

   12. 15

       A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.

   13. 16

       The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.

       • Wrap the pork butt. Work quickly and purposefully to minimize the time the pork butt is out of the smoker. Place the pork butt in the center of a single 18 x 36-inch piece of foil.
   14. 17

       Synonym of butty (“a friend or buddy”).

   15. 18

       A surname.

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