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▪ I. buttock, n.|ˈbʌtək|
Forms: 3, 6 buttoke, 4–5 buttok, 5–7 buttocke, 7 buttoc, 5– buttock.
[app. f. butt n.3 + -ock.]
1. a. One of the two protuberances of the rump (of men and beasts). Usually in pl. the rump, posteriors.
a1300Fragm. Pop. Sc. (Wright) 320 The heles atte buttokes, the kneon in aither eye. c1305in E.E.P. (1862) 75 A strong rop..fram þe schuldre ido To his buttok. c1386Chaucer Reeve's T. 55 Buttokkes brode, and brestes round and hye. c1489Caxton Sonnes Aymon x. 259 He righted hymself vpon his buttocke. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §76 The .ix. propertyes of an hare..the .viii. to haue shorte buttockes. 1601Shakes. All's Well ii. ii. 17 A Barbers chaire that fits all buttockes. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. xxii. 240 To whip their Buttocks and Loins with Rods. 1704Addison Italy (1733) 54 Set..with his bare Buttocks on this Stone. 1846D. Jerrold Chron. Clovernook Wks. 1864 IV. 393 Their tails have been bitten short to the buttock.
†b. pl. used as a sing.
c1590Marlowe Faustus 850 My horse..has a buttocks as slick as an eel.
2. As a joint of meat.
1623Althorp MS. xlvi, A buttocke, 2 necks, and a rond of beef. 1791Boswell Johnson (1831) I. 482 The outside cut of a salt buttock of beef. 1817Scott Rob Roy iv, As prime a buttock of beef as e'er hungry mon stuck fork in.
†3. buttocks of the brain: transl. of Galen's γλούτια, ‘certain medullary tubercles near the pineal gland’ (Liddell and Scott). Obs. rare.
1615Crooke Body of Man 431 The fourth Ventricle where the Glandule or Kernell called κονάριον is seated, at each side of which do adioyne the Buttockes of the Braine.
4. Naut. ‘The breadth of the ship astern from the tuck upwards.’ ‘That part abaft the after body, which is bounded by the fashion pieces, and by the wing transom, and the upper or second water-line’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.). (Cf. Fr. les fesses d'un navire.)
1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. ii. 4 According there to her breadth or narrownesse, we say she hath a narrow or broad buttocke. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Buttock, the convexity of a ship behind, under the stern. c1850Rudim. Nav. (Weale) 102.
†5. slang. A common strumpet. (Fielding's sense is obscure.) Obs.
1673R. Head Canting Acad. 105 The Bawds and the Buttocks that lived there round. 1688Shadwell Sqr. Alsatia i. Wks. 1720 IV. 17 What ogling there will be between thee and the Blowings!..every Buttock shall fall down before thee. 1690B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Buttock and File, both whore and pickpocket.
1743Fielding J. Wild i. v. (D.) The..capacity which qualifies a mill-ben, a bridle-call, or a buttock and file to arrive at any degree of eminence in his profession.
6. [f. buttock v.] A certain manœuvre in wrestling (see the verb); varieties mentioned are the cross-buttock, running-buttock, etc.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. v. §64 Running Buttock, is when..he turns his Buttock on his adversary, and lifts him up on his side. 1714T. Parkyns Inn-Play (ed. 2) 47 Then you are ready for the In-lock backwards or forwards, Buttock, or to return to the Trip with a draught. Ibid. 50 At the same time take the cross Buttock from the Under Hold. 1826Scott Woodst. II. vii. 178 One of their..saints had given the devil..a cross-buttock. 1881Sportsm. Year Bk. 314 Frears gaining two falls in succession, the first with a back heel and the second with a splendid buttock.
7. Comb., as buttock-beef, buttock-bone, buttock-hump; † buttock-ball, ? a ball attended by prostitutes; † buttock-banqueting, harlotry; buttock-lines, ‘in ship-building, the longitudinal curves at the rounding part of the after body in a vertical section’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.); † buttock-mail (Sc.), ludicrous term for a fine imposed for fornication.
1687T. Brown Lib. Consc. in Dk. Buckingham's Wks. (1705) II. 131 Why not into a Bibbing-House, as well as a Dancing School, a *Buttoc Ball, or the like?
1555Fardle Facions ii. viii. 167 Whiche [wiues] maie neuerthelesse vse *buttoke banquetyng abrode.
a1652Brome Queene's Exch. ii. iii, I would I had but this Fellows weight in *buttock Beef.
1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 48 The *buttocke bones and the flesh wherewith they are covered..are unto him in stead of a stoole and a cushion.
1849–52Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. IV. 1355/b The *buttock-hump..is not..so characteristic of this race as has been imagined.
1833Richardson Merc. Mar. Arch. 34 Perpendicular sections, called also *buttock lines.
1535Lyndesay Sat. 3353, I gat gude payment of my Temporall lands, My *buttock-maill, my coattis, & my offrands. 1814Scott Wav. II. vii. 122 ‘D'ye think the lads wi' the kilts will care for yere synods and yere presbyteries, and yere buttock-mail, and yere stool o' repentance?’
8. Coal-mining. The portion of the working-face of coal to be broken out next. Hence buttocker, a man who works at the buttock.
1883in Gresley Gloss. Coal Mining. 1912Bulman & Redmayne Colliery Working (ed. 3) 294 Buttocker, one who breaks down the coal which has been undercut by the ‘holers’. A ‘getter’. 1967Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) viii. 8 Buttock, in some longwall faces, a short step in the line of face, and substantially at right angles to it, from which coal can be more conveniently worked.
▪ II. ˈbuttock, v. trans.
[f. prec. n.]
†1. In horse-racing: To overtake (a horse).
1617Markham Caval. vi. 43 Say you come in that twelue score [yards] to buttocke him, you shall then finde, etc.
2. In wrestling: To throw (an adversary) by a manœuvre in which the buttock or the hip is used.
1883Standard 24 Mar. 3/7 Simpson buttocked Carradyce. |