BUTT is used for a vessel, or measure of wine, containing two hogsheads, or 126 gallons; otherwise called pipe. A butt of currans is from 15 to 2,200 weight.

Butts, or Butt-ends, in the sea-language, are the fore-ends of all planks under water, as they rise, and are joined one end to another.—Butt-ends in great ships are most carefully bolted; for if any one of them should spring or give way, the leak would be very dangerous and difficult to stop.

Butts, the place where archers meet with their bows and arrows to shoot at a mark, which we call shooting at the butts: (See Archery.)—Also butts are the short pieces of land in arable ridges and furrows.