单词 | butted |
释义 | buttedadj. Having or provided with a butt (butt n.6, in various senses), esp. one of a specified kind.Recorded earliest in black-butted adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > flaring at extremity > [adjective] > thickened at end clubbedc1386 clavated1728 butted1801 clavate1803 claviform1805 pedate1866 butt-ended1869 butt-headed1891 1801 C. Grimes in Hist. Rec. Austral. (1915) 1st Ser. III. 414 The finest stringy-bark and black-butted blue-gum trees I ever saw. 1843 J. Backhouse Narr. Visit Austral. Colonies 445 One [sc. Gum-tree] called here, the Woolly-butted Gum, seems identical with the Black-butted Gum of Tasmania. 1851 Harper's Mag. Oct. 613/2 One or two were knocked down by the sailors' brass-butted pistols. 1886 Q. Rev. 163 345 The stiff-butted Kelso [fishing] rods. 1894 Work 29 Sept. 161/1 When a butted spoke does break, it is generally at the rim end, or just where the thickened part leaves off. 1949 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 53 141 Slender-butted or even pointed-butted stone axes had been securely fastened to their hafts. 1954 Classical Rev. 4 2 The Xenophantus vase..where men hunt with butted spears. 1995 Entertainm. Weekly 5 May 52/4 Crumb creates an acidhead dreamscape where delectable big-butted superwomen rub up against down-home archetypes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1801 |
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