s used for a vessel, or measure of wine, containing two hogsheads, or 126 gallons; otherwise called pipe. A butt of currants is from 1500 to 2000 pounds 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 is called shooting at the butts: (See Archery.)—Also butts are the short pieces of land in arable ridges and furrows.