Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To weld together (two pieces of metal) so as to form a butting-joint.
- noun The covering-plate which is used for connecting two plates which are to be butt-riveted; in ship-building, a piece of plate or bar covering the joint of two plates or bars at their ends where they abut against each other, to give continuity of strength.
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_He_ pulled out in a bit of a bobble of a sea, not half as bad as this, and he started all his friends on the same butt-strap, and the plate opened like a furnace door, and I had to climb into the nearest fog bank while the boat went down. "
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He pulled out in a bit of a bobble of a sea, not half as bad as this, and he started all his friends on the same butt-strap, and the plates opened like a furnace door, and I had to climb into the nearest fog-bank, while the boat went down. "
The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900
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