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Definition of Buttling
1. buttle [v] - See also: buttle
Literary usage of Buttling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New York Annotated Cases: Selected from the Current Decisions of the New by Wayland Everett Benjamin, James Gereau Greene, Cyrus W. Phillips (1898)
"buttling. Supreme Court, Second Department, Appellate Division; January, 1897.
... Appeal by the defendant, William J. buttling, sheriff of Kings County, ..."
2. Public Service Comprising Outline Maps of Political Divisions; Names by James S. Barcus (1898)
"... Arthur C 389 Bryce, Wm 261 Butts, Arthur C 518 Butts, Allison : 141 Button.
William H 18 buttling, William J 512 buttling, Thomas P 407 buttling, ..."
3. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1795)
"Bar Brienne, a wicked, buttling and perfidious ... and urged on by a keeper • /t
the feals as buttling but more ..."