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Definition of Buttock

1. Noun. Either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump.

Definition of Buttock

1. n. The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump.

Definition of Buttock

1. Noun. (usually in the plural) Each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body between the base of the back and the top of the legs. ¹

2. Noun. The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Buttock

1. either of the two rounded parts of the rump [n -S]

Medical Definition of Buttock

1. 1. The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump. 2. The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern. Origin: From Butt an end. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Literary usage of Buttock

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"BARBER'S CHAIR. Proverbial for accommodating all bottoms. See Ray. It is like a barber's chmr. that fita all buttocks • the. pin-buttock,.the ..."

2. The Early Records of the Town of Providence by Providence (R.I.). Record Commissioners (1895)
"Branded with TC: upon her neere buttock and a Dimond upon her neere shoulder: and that he had Received full satisfaction for the same: And that the said ..."

3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Whose son Meriones now follow'd, and pierced Through the right buttock ; onward driv'n the point 80 Travell'd along the bladder ..."

4. A Treatise on surgery by Timothy Holmes (1875)
"In wounds of the buttock the chief point is to determine the absence of foreign bodies. I have seen immense pieces of glass and other substances embedded in ..."

5. The Market Assistant: Containing a Brief Description of Every Article of by Thomas Farrington De Voe (1867)
"Or the buttock can be cut into two rounds of beef—the first and second cuts. ... The buttock is often prepared by some "old-country men" for a Scotch ham, ..."

6. Practical anatomy, a manual of dissections by Christopher Heath (1877)
"THE buttock. [The body being turned on its face, the buttocks are to be raised by ... The "fold of the buttock" formed by the lower border of the gluteus ..."

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