Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with a butt (of some specified kind): as, butted with ivory. Used chiefly in combination: as, brass-butted.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
butt .
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Examples
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A banana again butted out the egg, and canola oil stepped in for Ms. Butter.
Fridays and Fruitcake Sarah 2009
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A banana again butted out the egg, and canola oil stepped in for Ms. Butter.
Archive 2009-05-01 Sarah 2009
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Big Six is so much tidier with its symmetry of three-letter-word butted up against three-letter-word.
My Lovely New Tea Set!!! (Yes- it needs 3 exclamation points) Lauri 2010
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Big Six is so much tidier with its symmetry of three-letter-word butted up against three-letter-word.
Archive 2010-03-01 Lauri 2010
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It was a celebrity feud of sorts in the early 1990s when the famous sitar player Ravi Shankar and the bushy bearded spiritual leader of the same name butted heads.
Boise Weekly Jennifer Spencer 2010
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We were in a big political debate, firing squad was going, and one of the female judges just kind of butted in and said, "Do you think you ` re pretty?"
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And you could challenge him on those opinions, and sometimes we kind of butted heads about stuff, but we always managed to work it out.
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And you could challenge him on those opinions, and sometimes we kind of butted heads about stuff, but we always managed to work it out.
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The lights for the ends of the house may be "butted," that is, placed edge to edge, if you happen to strike good edges, but as a general thing, it will be more satisfactory to lap them a little.
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Also there were all Rose's queer black sheep who yielded meekly to her ribbon-wreathed crook, though they "butted" against George's methods.
The Guests Of Hercules M. Leone Bracker 1901
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