stuts

Verb (1)

stut (third-person singular simple present stuts, present participle stutting, simple past and past participle stutted)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To support, prop up.
   • When the upper storey of the house was altered the roof had to be stutted up for the time being.

Verb (2)

stut (third-person singular simple present stuts, present participle stutting, simple past and past participle stutted)

1. (obsolete) To stutter.
   • Another brought a spycke Of a bacon flycke;
     Her tonge was verye quycke,
     But she spake somwhat thycke:
     Her felow did stammer and stuta. 1529, John Skelton, The Tunning of Elenor Rumming

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