BUTT

v. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut. [Written also but.] And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground. Drayton.

2.
v.

To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.] A snow-white steer before thine altar led, Butts with his threatening brows. Dryden.

3.
v.

To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head. Two harmless lambs are butting one the other. Sir H. Wotton.

4.
n.

A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.

5.
n.

The common English flounder.

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