butting

Verb (1)

butt (third-person singular simple present butts, present participle butting, simple past and past participle butted)

1. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
   • And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground.1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned...

Verb (2)

butt (third-person singular simple present butts, present participle butting, simple past and past participle butted)

1. (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
   • Two harmless lambs are butting one the other.1651, Henry Wotton, A Description of the Country's Recreations
2. (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
   • Rams butt at other males during mating season.
3. (Canada, Eastern, intransitive, transitive, parts of the northeastern US) To cut in line (in front of someone).
   • Teacher! He just butted me!

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Verb

but (third-person singular simple present buts, present participle butting, simple past and past participle butted)

1. (archaic, humorous, rare) Use the word "but".
   • But me no buts.

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