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Butt
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4
Part of speech: noun (n.)
A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4
Part of speech: noun (n.)
The common English flounder.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. 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. 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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 4
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head. Two harmless lambs are butting one the other. Sir H. Wotton.