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BUTTERIS

Volume 5 · 68 words · 1823 Edition

in the manege, 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 astern, from the tack upwards; and a ship is said to have a broad or a narrow buttock, according as she is built broad or narrow at the transom.