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BUTRINTO

Volume 5 · 153 words · 1815 Edition

a port-town of Epirus, or Canina, in Turkey in Europe, situated opposite to the island of Corfu, at the entrance of the gulf of Venice. E. Long. 20° 40'. N. Lat. 39° 45'.

**BUDD** is 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 2200 pounds weight.

**BUDDS**, 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.

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