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butt

butt (third-person singular simple present butts, present participle butting, simple past and past participle butted)

1. To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.

butt (plural butts)

1. (slang) The buttocks; used as a euphemism, less objectionable than arse/ass

   Get up off your butt and get to work.

2. (slang) The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes ones private parts.

   I can see your butt.

   When the woman in the dress was sitting with her legs up, I could see up her butt.

3. (slang) Body; self.

   Get your butt to the car.

   We cant chat today. I have to get my butt to work before Im late.

4. (slang) A used cigarette.
5. The larger or thicker end of anything; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp end; as, the butt of a rifle. Formerly also spelled but.
6. A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
   • 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act V, Scene II, line 267.

     Here is my journeys end, here is my butt / And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.

7. A mark to be shot at; a target.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act I, Scene II, line 186.

     To which is fixed, as an aim or butt...

   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 37.

     The inhabitants of all cities and towns were ordered to make butts, and to keep them in repair, under a penalty of twenty shillings per month, and to exercise themselves in shooting at them on holidays.

8. A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
9. A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.

   Hes usually the butt of their jokes.

10. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.

    Be careful in the pen, that ram can knock you down with a butt.

    The hand-cuffed suspect gave the officer a desperate butt in the chest.

11. A thrust in fencing.
12. (lacrosse) The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse sticks shaft in order to prevent injury.
13. The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
14. The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
15. (mechanical) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering; – also called a butt joint.
16. (carpentry) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
17. (shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
18. (leather trades) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
19. The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
20. (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe.
    • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, p. 205.

      Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons. –

21. A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
    • 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, Scene II, line 121.

      ...I escapd upon a butt of sack which the sailors heavd oerboard...

22. Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
23. (obsolete, West of England) hassock.

butt (masculine butt; feminine butt; neuter butt; plural butte; comparative buttere; superlative buttest)

1. blunt

Definizione dizionario butt

	culo
	buttocks
	La parte carnosa del corpo umano sulla quale ci si siede.
	The fleshy part of the human body that one sits on.

	cozzare
	to strike bluntly

	sedere
	La parte carnosa del corpo umano sulla quale ci si siede.
	The fleshy part of the human body that one sits on.

ano

barile

base

bersaglio

botte

cicca

cornata

deretano

impugnatura

intenzione

manico

mozzicone

natica

parte inferiore

pedale

piede di tronco

proposito

scopo

urtare

Altri significati:

A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.

(carpentry) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.

(slang) The buttocks; used as a euphemism, less objectionable than arse/ass

A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.

larger or thicker end of anything; e.g., the blunt end of a rifle

The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.

A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.

(slang) The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.

Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot

(slang) Body; self.

The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.

(mechanical) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering; – also called a butt joint.

To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.

(lacrosse) The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to prevent injury.

sudden blow from the head of an animal; headbutt

The larger or thicker end of anything; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp end; as, the butt of a rifle. Formerly also spelled but.

A mark to be shot at; a target.

A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.

A thrust in fencing.

remnant of a smoked cigarette or cigar

(English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe.

slang: body; self

(leather trades) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.

(slang) A used cigarette.

(obsolete, West of England) hassock.

The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.

A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.

(shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.