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▪ I. † ˈbutting, n. Obs.
Apparently some term of endearment.
a1528Skelton Agst. Garnesche Wks. 1843 I. 127 Ye haue a fantasy to Fanchyrche strete, With Lumbardes lemmans for to mete, With, Bas me, buttyng, praty Cys!
▪ II. butting, vbl. n.1|ˈbʌtɪŋ|
[f. butt v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of thrusting or striking violently with the head or horns; also attrib.
1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 115 Rams..may be made to leave off their butting. 1858Geo. Eliot Scenes Clerical Life 214 Mr. Dempster..poked his head forward with a butting motion by way of bow.
2. dial. (see quot.)
1602Carew Cornwall 73 b, Hee that is once possessed of the ball [in ‘hurling’], hath his contrary male waiting..The other thrusteth him in the breast, with his closed fist to keepe him off: which they call Butting.
▪ III. † ˈbutting, vbl. n.2 Obs.
[f. butt v.2 or n.7 + -ing1.]
1. Bounding, boundary, limit, confine; also fig.
1552Huloet, Bowndynge or buttynge of thre fieldes ioynynge together, trifinium. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Countr. Farm 522 Setting downe in writing the lying, buttings, and contents of the said peece of ground. 1706De Foe Jure Div. v. 23 Nature has its Buttings and Boundings. 1750G. Hughes Barbados 6 The buttings and boundings of several tenements.
2. The making of butt-joints.
c1850Rudim. Nav. (Weale) 116 Ekeing, making good a deficiency in the length..by scarphing or butting.
3. ‘Two wheels touching on the points of the teeth, when entering into action with each other.’ Britten (1884) 37.
1881F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 132 Butting is generally indicative of a pinion too large. Ibid. If [the engaging contact] is on the roundings of the teeth a butting action ensues.
†4. A projection. Obs.
1677Moxon Mech. Exerc. (1703) 94 The Stock of the Piercer by reason of..a Sholder, or Butting out upon the work will not turn about.
▪ IV. butting, vbl. n.3|ˈbʌtɪŋ|
[f. but v. + -ing1.]
The making use of ‘buts’, i.e. objections or qualifying statements.
1553T. Wilson Rhet. 72 b, What is geven to one by commendyng, the same is streight taken away by buttyng.
▪ V. butting, vbl. n.4|ˈbʌtɪŋ|
In the game of Curling: see quot.
1831Blackw. Mag. XXX. 971 Butting, or chap and guard, is to put up a stone, and lie guard upon it.
▪ VI. butting, ppl. a.|ˈbʌtɪŋ|
[f. butt v.1 + -ing2.]
†a. That projects or juts out.
b. That pushes or strikes violently with the head or horns.
1447–8J. Shillingford Lett. (1871) 102 The which postren dores..oughte to stande..in the saide buttyng wall. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. iii. 135 A Bull..With spurning Heels, and with a butting Head.
▪ VII. butting
obs. f. butin, booty. |