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abut, v.|əˈbʌt|
[appears to represent two Fr. vbs. of cognate origin; OFr. abouter ‘toucher par un bout,’ abouter à, sur, to border on (countries, estates), mod.Fr. abouter, techn. to join two things end to end, f. à to + bout end; and OFr. abuter, ‘toucher au but,’ f. à to + but end, mod.Fr. abuter, 16th c. abutter, to put end to end, touch with an end, as ‘toutes les rues qui abuttoient à la maison de ville’ (Littré); in la Vendée they use abutter to signify ‘mettre un support à un mur’ (Godefroi). Cf. also mod.Fr. aboutir to touch with an end, terminate in or on. In reference to boundaries abut represents abouter; architecturally it = abuter, abutter. The position of sense 1 is uncertain.]
†1. intr. To stick out, lean forward (as in looking out at a window or over a battlement). Obs.
c1230Ancren Riwle 62 Ne aboutie heo nout vt et ham, [the battlements] leste heo þes deofles quarreaus habbe amidden þen eien.
2. To end at, march with, border on, as contiguous lands or estates do.
1463Manners & Househ. Exps. of Eng. 461 A pece of pastor..abuttynge to Hogge medew on the northe. 1650Fuller Pisgah Sight iv. ii. 22 The land alotted him [Ishmael] ranged out so far, that the bounds and borders thereof abutted on all his kindred. 1793White Nat. Hist. Selb. (1853) i. 11 Being very large and extensive it [Selborne parish] abuts on twelve parishes. 1837W. Howitt Rur. Life (1862) III. iii. 229 Such is the region which abuts upon the Yorkshire dales.
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1871Athenæum 25 Mar. 374 We discovered a hole in the pavement abutting the wall. 1882Pall Mall G. 31 May 2/2 The Rotherhithe Baths, abutting Southwark Park.
3. To end on or against, to touch with a projecting end or point; to lean upon at one end. Properly said of the end or corner of anything projecting so as to touch or lean on the side of another.
1578T. N. tr. Conq. of W. India 201 It is made of stone, with foure dores that abutteth upon the three calseys. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie (1869) 133 If their last sillables abut not vpon the consonant in the beginning of another word. 1833Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 348 Tertiary strata of the older Pliocene epoch abut against vertical mica-schist. 1836Todd Cycl. An. & Ph. I. 281/2 In the Ostrich the last rib abuts against the ilium. 1868Milman St. Paul's viii. 190 The Chapter House abutted on the south aisle of the Cathedral.
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1864Athenæum No. 1929, 505/3 The arches are abutted by outstanding structures.
4. trans. To cause to end against; to project.
1802J. Playfair Illustr. Huttonian Th. 378 Such a face..can have been produced only by having been abutted against some stratified rock. |