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BUTTERIS

Volume 5 · 67 words · 1810 Edition

in the manage, an instrument of steel, fitted to a wooden handle, wherewith they pare the foot, or cut off the hoof, of a horse.

BUTTOCK of a Ship, is that part of her which is her breadth right aft, from the tack upwards; and a ship is said to have a broad or narrow buttock, according as she is built broad or narrow at the transom.