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slide-butts

slide-butts is the plural of slide-butt.

Meaning of slide-butt

Noun

slide-butt (plural slide-butts)

  1. (West-Country, obsolete) A horse- or ox-drawn cart, with runners instead of wheels, used for carrying dung.
    • The slide-butt is a strong, oblong box, sufficiently capacious to hold three or four common wheel-barrows of earth or compost; it is shod with thing rough pieces of timber, and is convenient of spreading dressing over field, in small heaps. Two oxen, or one horse are employed to draw it.1817, Charles Sandoe Gilbert, An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall, page 352

Questions about slide-butts

What is slide-butts the plural of?
Slide-butts is the plural of slide-butt.

Words near slide-butts in the dictionary

  1. slide valve
  2. slide valves
  3. slide whistle
  4. slide whistles
  5. slide-butt
  6. slide-butts
  7. slide-show
  8. slide-shows
  9. slide-tackle
  10. slideable
  11. slideably

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