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单词 culbut
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culbutv.

Etymology: An anglicized adaptation of French culbuter, < cul back, fundament + buter to butt, to strike abruptly.
rare.
To overturn backwards, throw any one on his back; to drive back in disorder.
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1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxvi. 219 Not..permitted to culbut.
1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 32 545 The generals..had led or left them to be culbuted by the French.
1842 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 51 630 A British battalion..driving him over hill and dale, culbuted in the most exemplary manner.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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