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Definition of Butting
1. n. An abuttal; a boundary.
Definition of Butting
1. Verb. (present participle of butt) ¹
2. Noun. An abuttal; a boundary. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Butting
1. butt [v] - See also: butt
Literary usage of Butting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Records Relating to the Early History of Boston by Boston (Mass.). Registry Dept (1883)
"... will witherall or John Stretton. butting southeast upon the harbour, bounded
on the northeast by Will Stilson, on the northwest and southwest b}- Capt. ..."
2. Mining Engineers' Handbook by Robert Peele (1918)
"For such conditions of loading, post-butting sets should be used direction of
max pressure is vertical; cap-butting sets, where the direction oí sure is ..."
3. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records by Charles William Manwaring (1904)
"To Charles Treat, one piece of land butting south upon the lot distributed ...
To Dorotheus Treat, land butting north upon land of heirs of John Hollister ..."
4. The Herts Genealogist and Antiquary by William Brigg (1899)
"Item a peice in the same field butting into Barton Brude by ... Item a peice at
the side of the former acre butting into Hexon field by ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1834)
"The and cries — " Out of the way there mob take part with the slave — and mad
ox, butting with the sharp horns him of being a thief and a robber, ..."
6. Theatrical Management in the West and South for Thirty Years by Solomon Smith (1868)
"butting an Iceberg. ' ' Starboard hard ! Stop her ! " These words, uttered in a
loud and sharp voice by the look-out stationed on the bowsprit, ..."
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