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Definition of Butt on
1. Verb. Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary. "England marches with Scotland"
Generic synonyms: Adjoin, Contact, Meet, Touch
Specialized synonyms: Neighbor, Neighbour
Derivative terms: Abutment, Abutter, Border, Border, Butt, Edge, Edging, March
Literary usage of Butt on
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and Practical by Joseph Gwilt (1842)
"2J-inch deal, 2 panels bead butt on both sides. 2J-inch deal, 2 panels moulded
and square. ... 24-inch deal, 4 panels square, beat butt on both sides. ..."
2. A Manual of Domestic Economy: Suited to Families Spending from £100 to £1000 by John Henry Walsh (1856)
"0 7 External doors, the lower panels bead flush and square, and the tour upper
panels square both sides fot mouldings ... .„ 0 7i Ditto bead butt on the ..."
3. Modern State Trials: Revised and Illustrated with Essays and Notes by William Charles Townsend (1850)
"The 50/. and 40/. notes formed part payment of a cheque drawn by butt on the 26th
of February, anJ handed to him. All these sums appeared to have passed ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1872)
"A butt, ON. batr, the trunk, stump of a tree ; Fr. bout, end ; w. pu>t, ... Fr.
buter, to touch at the end, to abut or butt on, as in G. from stossen, ..."
5. Men of Business by William Osborn Stoddard (1895)
"Days had been consumed in repairing the consequences of (he bad weather, butt on
the 26th the splice was made and (he work began. it was only a beginning, ..."
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