Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BUTT

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Definitions of BUTT

1. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
2. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
3. A thrust in fencing.
4. A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
5. The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.
6. (transitive, easternCanada, parts of the northeasternUS) To cut in line (in front of someone).
7. (countable) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end
8. (countable) The waste end of anything.
9. (countable, generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
10. (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
11. (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
12. (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
13. (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe.
14. (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
15. (dated, West Country, &, Ireland) A heavy two-wheeled cart.
16. (dated, West Country, &, Ireland) A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.
17. A surname.

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Examples of Using BUTT in a Sentence

• Born in Butt Lane, Staffordshire, Mitchell attended Hanley High School and afterwards worked as an apprentice at a locomotive engineering works, whilst also studying engineering and mathematics at night.
• Educated at Trinity College Dublin, and a member of the University Philosophical Society, John Butler Yeats began his career as a lawyer and devilled briefly with Isaac Butt before he took up painting in 1867 and studied at the Heatherley School of Fine Art.
• The Jerky Boys, on their 1996 comedy album Jerky Boys 3, a Florida, New York resident named Mike, responds to a bogus, used chainsaw ad becoming the butt of the joke.
• According to the 2017 book Secession and Security, by political scientist Ahsan Butt, states respond violently to secessionist movements if the potential state poses a greater threat than the would-be secessionist movement.
• One peculiar characteristic of Condorito is that the character, after going through an embarrassing moment or being the butt of the joke in a given strip, almost always falls backwards to the floor (legs visible or out of frame) in the final panel, although new comic strips have now put the victim of the joke looking at the reader instead.
• Butt was born in 1813 in Glenfin, a district bordering the Finn Valley in County Donegal in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland.
• Meanwhile, the Royal Air Force's (RAF) night bombing offensive had been shown to be largely ineffective, as revealed by the Butt Report in August 1941, and by Christmas 1941 such attacks had largely petered out.
• His photos – from the Europride in London (1992) or the Love Parade in Berlin (1992), for example – appeared in magazines such as i-D, Spex, Interview, SZ Magazin and Butt, and established his reputation as a prominent witness of a contemporary social movement.
• He is remembered for being made the butt of satires by Andrew Marvell in 1681 and by John Dryden in Mac Flecknoe in 1682.
• The user puts the butt end of the spear, or dart, in the cup, or grabs the spur with the end of the spear.
• O'Grady travelled to Scotland to fight Watt, but sustained a cut over the forehead due to a head butt late in the bout and lost by a technical knockout in round 12.
• His excessive obesity, which made him the butt of the Royalist jokes, prevented his practising at the bar for some years before 1789.
• Two immensely popular types of archery – short-range butt shooting in a covered gallery (au berceau) and popinjay (sur la perche) – were practiced mainly in France and Belgium.
• It is located on the north bank of the River Liffey, on Custom House Quay between Butt Bridge and Talbot Memorial Bridge.
• Initially sharper than Hancock's characterisation, Kerr's portrayal eventually developed into a more dim-witted character who became the butt of Hancock's jokes.
• ; Butt hinge / Mortise hinge: Any hinge designed to be set into a door frame and/or door is considered a butt hinge or mortise hinge.
• The inspiration for the nationally observed Great American Smokeout came from a Randolph High School guidance councilor, who observed in a 1969 discussion with students that he could send all of them to college if he had a nickel for every cigarette butt he found on the ground.
• The assault rifles are gas-operated automatic carbines with a foldable butt and are designed to meet the NATO standard.
• Griffith, who proposed nitrates and nitrites, well-known curing agents, as the secondary butt salts.
• Isaac Butt made some well-received speeches but failed to persuade any of the major parties to support bills beneficial to Ireland, nothing worthwhile reaching the statute books.
• The Fire Marshal concluded that the likely cause of the fire was the disposal of an unextinguished match or cigarette butt in a scrap bin containing two months' worth of accumulated cuttings.
• On June 9, 2018, Finger Eleven performed as Rainbow Butt Monkeys for the first time since 1997, playing at Burlington's Sound of Music Festival and showcasing songs from their debut album, Letters from Chutney.
• By the time Voinovich was elected, Cleveland had become the butt of late night comedians' jokes about the Cuyahoga River and Mayor Ralph Perk's hair catching fire (in separate incidents) and as the only major American city to go bankrupt.
• The fungus attacks the moist, poorly protected undersurface of tree trunk's thickest part (the "butt" above the root, as opposed to "top"), where the end of the stem makes contact with the soil.
• The university purchased Oracle ERP Butt and HCM Butt to update its IT strategy and standardise employee-facing functions, which became crucial in the institution's efforts to modernise its IT infrastructure.

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