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Definition of Butty
1. Noun. A sandwich. "A bacon butty"
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Definition of Butty
1. n. One who mines by contract, at so much per ton of coal or ore.
Definition of Butty
1. Noun. (UK chiefly Northern England NZ) A sandwich, usually with a hot savoury filling in a breadcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg. ¹
2. Noun. (mining) A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Butty
1. a fellow workman [n -TIES]
Medical Definition of Butty
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Butty
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Literary usage of Butty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Revised Reports by Robert Campbell, Frederick Pollock, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1903)
"GURNEY, B. (in summing up): This is an action brought by the plaintiffs, who were
butty colliers, against the defendants, as mine owners, for gate readings, ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1865)
"This is an action brought by the plaintiffs, who were butty colliers, ...
The plaintiffs have rested their claim on a custom that, where butty colliers ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"When one man speaks of another as his butty, does he not mean one who worked with
... In the Midlands generally the meaning of butty is a fellow-workman, ..."
4. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"There may be two forms of the word, but the meanings are all connected. butty, adj.
Deeply furrowed with cart-ruts. ' A brant, rutty loaning. ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Ruled at Nisi Prius, in the Courts of King's by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Central Criminal Court (1841)
"This is an action brought by the plaintiffs, who were butty colliers, ...
The plaintiffs have rested their claim on a custom that, where butty colliers ..."
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