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▪ I. butt-end, n.|ˈbʌt ˈɛnd|
[f. butt n.3, n.7 + end.]
1. a. = butt n.3 (and now more frequent).
1580North Plutarch (1676) 955 Leptines..took a Halbard..and with the butt end of it drew on the ground that which he would. 1611Chapman May Day Wks. 1873 II. 339 The butt end of a shoemakers horn. 1677Hobbes Homer 141 The butt-ends of their spears fixt in the ground. 1792Munchausen's Trav. ii. 8 The but-end of my whip. 1833Regul. Instr. Cavalry i. 34 The butt-end of the carbine. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 244 His brains would have been knocked out with the but end of a musket.
b. fig. The mere concluding part; the ‘fag end’.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, ii. ii. 110 The butt-end of a Mothers blessing. 1676Adv. Men of Shaftesbury 36 The Dear Bag was gone, the Butt-end of all his hopes. 1820Edin. Rev. XXXIII. 207 Added to a Deposition the but-end of an Indictment. 1825Blackw. Mag. XVIII. 162 Their rhapsodies only recall the butt-end of an ancient cavalier song.
†2. The thickest part of the trunk of a tree, just above the root. Obs.
1677Hubbard Narr. 66 He nimbly got behind the butt-end of a tree newly turned up by the roots. 1760Winthrop in Phil. Trans. LII. 10 A great tree, 2½ feet in diameter at the butt-end.
3. Naut. See butt n.7
4. Hockey and Lacrosse. A jab or thrust with the handle end of a hockey-stick. Chiefly Canadian.
1963A. O'Brien Headline Hockey 79 Blair told Ted O'Connor to hand No. 11 of the Swedish national team a butt-end. 1965Globe & Mail (Toronto) 9 Apr. 38/1 Nobody ever gave you a better butt-end.
▪ II. butt-end, v. nonce-wd.
[f. prec.]
1. To use the butt-end (e.g. of a gun).
1859M. Thomson Cawnpore 48 (Hoppe) For destructive aggression, battering, and butt-ending, the palm must be awarded to the privates of ― Regiment.
2. Hockey and Lacrosse. To jab or thrust at (an opponent's body) with the handle end of the stick. Chiefly Canadian.
1955Telegram (Toronto) 21 Apr. 6/8 A hockey coach says even youngsters playing hockey are taught kneeing and butt-ending. 1965Globe & Mail (Toronto) 9 Apr. 38/1 The art of butt-ending is almost an obsolete illegality in hockey.
So butt-ending vbl. n.
1859, etc. [see above]. |