Synonyms:
butt, butt_end
Meaning: thick end of the handle
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt_against, butt_on
Meaning: lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland"
Synonyms:
butt, bunt
Meaning: to strike, thrust or shove against; "He butted his sister out of the way"; "The goat butted the hiker with his horns"
Synonyms:
butt
Meaning: place end to end without overlapping; "The frames must be butted at the joints"
Usage examples
I grasped its barrel, reached upward and struck with its heavy metal butt.
Thurston beat an imperative tattoo upon the door with the butt of his quirt, and shouted.
"Might be hollow clear through its length," Tom explained seriously. "The butt might be all rotted out.
At the edge of the forest he laid the axe to the root of a sapling about four inches through at the butt.
We were now for a moment the object of sympathy; the Administration was the butt of considerable hostility.
Lastly, the men, young and old, surround the hut, and, stooping down, butt at it with their heads, like so many rams.
Every twig was pressed behind him noiselessly, and once when Rod struck his snow-shoe against the butt of a small tree the old Indian held up his hands in mock horror.
The butt of his gun projected behind him, and as Dr. Warren moved the statue into the light of the jewelry store chandeliers, they all saw, clinging to the stock of the gun, some straggling, white hairs.
I determined to commence a series of covert insinuations, or innuendoes, about the oblong box--just to let him perceive, gradually, that I was not altogether the butt, or victim, of his little bit of pleasant mystification.
White's story obliges me, though I beg leave to take notice of their barbarity to the English prisoners, for they would set them up as a butt or mark to shoot at; several of whom were thus murdered in cold blood, by way of diversion.