Word Finder - butts

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The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end

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The waste end of anything

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(generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.

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A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.

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To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.

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A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.

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Be careful in the pen, that ram can knock you down with a butt.

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A thrust in fencing.

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To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.

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To strike bluntly with the head.

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Rams butt at other males during mating season.

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(English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe.

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A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.

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Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot

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A heavy two-wheeled cart.

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A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.

Water butts are used to recycle rainwater for the garden.

And look," she added, "No butts!

A locked gate at the front leads to a passage by the side of the house where there are two rainwater butts.

First, the single malts are ' married ' together and held in sherry butts for several months.

The band sing mostly in French, with some excellent social comment, including musings on the butts of cigarettes.

Eventually the German twigged what was going on, then you had to duck a few rifle butts or a kick up the backside.

Stop using toilets as wastebaskets - Frequent flushing to get rid of soiled facial tissues or cigarette butts is a waste of water.

To store the asparagus until you are ready to make your recipe for roasted asparagus with garlic, wrap the butts of the spears in a damp paper towel.

Before making a recipe for roasted asparagus with garlic, wash the spears thoroughly and snap off the fibrous butts.

According to Entertainmentwise.com, she embarrassed the 28-year-old Bloom by dropping cigarette butts on the floor during a Japanese event in which Orlando Bloom was schedule to speak on cleaning up the environment.

Do not fling cigarette butts over the side, either, because they can be blown onto a balcony or another deck where they may smolder.

However, pica involving dozens of other substances, including cigarette butts and ashes, hair, paint chips, and paper have also been reported.

Realizing that most games contained numbers, words or movement (like chess), Alfred Mosher Butts decided to come up with a board game that combined all three.

Born in 1929, Jane Roberts was the public name for Jane Butts, the woman who eventually became a catalyst for the New Age Movement.

In 1963, Jane and her husband, Robert Butts, began experimenting with the ouija board and she entered a trance.

In the end, an emotional Lochmiel apologizes, and they do all do the perfect cheer to I Like Big Butts.

One of the reasons butts go flabby or flat is that they are worked too little throughout daily life.

They give the illusion of a smoother hourglass figure, particularly for those girls whose problem areas are in their hips, butts, or thighs.

Gordon Walker - A Hunter who butts heads with Sam and Dean, Walker sets out to kill Sam, entrapping Dean to do it, but Sam takes his head off with a garotte in season three.

Vinnie sounded close to tears as he coughed on another of Ethel's cigarette butts.

My chief says for us not to break our butts wasting any more time chasing him down.

At the age of eight he was taken in charge by an elder brother of his father, Howard Hastings, who held a post in the customs. After spending two years at a private, school at Newington Butts, he was moved to Westminster, where among his contemporaries occur the names of Lord Thurlow and Lord Shelburne, Sir Elijah Impey, and the poets Cowper and Churchill.

Ath is famous for its gild of archers, whose butts are erected on the plain of the Esplanade in the centre of the town.

The Ausbruch wines take from three to four years to ripen, and they may contain from 12% to 15% of alcohol and a little or a fair quantity of sugar, these factors varying according to the vintage and the number of " butts " of zibebs employed.

Fair enough there were other contributing factors as well, but the discarded butts were the ignition sources.

In the first simulated grouse shoot of its kind, guests shot clays from a line of eight stone grouse butts.

The junction of St. Marys Butts and Broad Street was closed from 0500 on Sunday for essential roadworks.

On the continent of Europe osiers or willows are bunched in sizes of one metre in girth at the butts and (except in Belgium) are also sold by weight.

The troops were no longer moving, but stood with the butts of their muskets on the ground.

They move to the back of the stage, break open the center doors with their rifle butts.

Crusaders would also develop a training academy at the former Butts Stadium alongside an arena for Coventry rugger club.

The defects of this method are that the tops are liable to split in the brake and the butts to remain foul.

The willows are cut at the first indication of the sap rising and "couched" in rotten peelings and soil at a slight angle, the butts being on the ground, which should be strewn with damp straw from a manure heap. The tops are covered lightly with rotted peelings and by periodical application of water, fermentation is induced at the bottom, heat is engendered, the leaves force their way through the covering and peeling may begin.