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c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 5247 Galathin smot first Guinbating Wiþ his sword ful but.

c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 1112 (MED) Full butt in þe frunt, the fromonde he hittez.

a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) l. 4587 (MED) He..smote Darel..In middes of the sheld ful butt.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 27 Socrates mette full butte with Xenophon, in a narrowe backe lane, where he could not stert from hym.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. ii. xix. 56 Tarquinius Superbus..ran full but against him.

1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 30 I..met full-but with my Comrade.

1702 J. Savage Compl. Hist. Germany 188 Count Walbourg..immediately drew, and ran at Otho full butt.

1752 H. Fielding Amelia III. viii. i. 108 Before he arrived at the Shop, a Gentleman stopt him full Butt.

1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow (ed. 2) I. vi. 60 The corporal..ran full butt at the lieutenant.

1873 C. Camden Hoity Toity iii. 51 Hoity Toity steered a beetle stem-on against Benjie's nose, just as before..he had sent one full-butt against Benjie's spectacles.

1905 Western Gaz. 23 Dec. 2/3 The Salamander took a post at full-butt sending me over her head into the deep snow beyond... There is a kind of Providence who cares for bobbers.

1913 A. Conan Doyle Poison Belt ii. 60 Makin' a week-end visit and finding you've run full butt into the Day of Judgment.

1941 J. Pinckney Hilton Head xxiii. 209 The ship's bluff bows came full butt against a comber and tons of water swept aft.