English English Dictionary

Butchery quality.

Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.

The business of a butcher.

Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter.

A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.

An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house.

A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king.

The office of a butler.

A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier.

The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported.

To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.]

The common English flounder.

A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.

To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.

To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.

Alt. of But

See 1st Butt, 10.

A joint in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8.

An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an arrow.

See Butt weld, under Butt.