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Definition of Butment
1. n. A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier.
Definition of Butment
1. Noun. (architecture) A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier. ¹
2. Noun. (context: masonry) The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Butment
1. abutment [n -S] - See also: abutment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Butment
Literary usage of Butment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1876)
"To lessen the friction and compensate for the wear of the butment, that part of
the latter against which the urum turns is sometimes made hollow : a piece ..."
2. Appleton's Dictionary of Machines, Mechanics, Engine-work, and Engineering by D. Appleton and Company, Oliver Byrne (1852)
"To drive the pisten, and at the s:ime time to form a butment between the orifices
of the ... The butment in the form of a segment is secured to the inner ..."
3. Pumping Machinery: A Treatise on the History, Design, Construction and by Arthur Maurice Greene (1911)
"The operation is clear from the figure; the flap or butment A serves to divide
the two sides of the pump and when the projecting piece or piston strikes the ..."
4. A Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation: Exhibiting the Numerous by Robert Fulton (1796)
"... of the fame radius, as the bridge, in each butment, they being caft with arms,
or.united to binders, in order to take a firm hold on the ..."
5. Sir Christopher Wren by Lena Milman (1908)
"KM Let ABC be an Arch resting at C, against an immoveable Wall KM, but at A upon
a Pillar AD, so small as to be unable to be a sufficient butment to the ..."
6. Journal of a Tour in the State of New York, in the Year 1830: With Remarks by John Fowler (1831)
"At the extremity of the projection, a small butment of stone was first placed in the
... A bridge was then made to this butment, the temporary bridge shoved ..."
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