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Definition of Butments
1. butment [n] - See also: butment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Butments
Literary usage of Butments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Pedestrian Tour of Two Thousand Three Hundred Miles in North America: To by Philip Stansbury (1822)
"When told of these remaining butments, I expected. to find them substantially
constructed ... Judging from the butments, the undertaking must have been airy ..."
2. A Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation: Exhibiting the Numerous by Robert Fulton (1796)
"... and the weight which the butments will have to refill ... and that at much
lefs expence than butments and piers could be ..."
3. A Manual of Mining: Based on the Course of Lectures on Mining Delivered at by Magnus Colbjørn Ihlseng, Eugene Benjamin Wilson (1908)
"The butments receive the force of the water, and prevent the latter from being
... In some pumps the butments are movable and are arranged to be pushed back ..."
4. The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine by Thomas Paine (1819)
"... yielding and pressing up of the wood, and which corresponds to the giving way
of the butments, so generally fatal to stone arches, would have upon this. ..."
5. Memoirs of the Life of Thomas Paine: With Observations on His Writings by W. T. Sherwin (1819)
"The arch having thus gained nearly a solid bearing on the wood and the butments,
and the days beginning to be warm, and the nights continuing to be cool, ..."
6. Bedd Gelert: Its Facts, Fairies, & Folk-lore by DAVID ERWYD. JENKINS, William (Bleddyn) Jones (1899)
"Three of the butments remain, but they differ nothing from Llyn ... dozens of
other mortarless butments of comparatively recent bridges. ..."
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