Butt

(noun.) thick end of the handle.

(noun.) the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking).

(noun.) a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons).

(noun.) a victim of ridicule or pranks.

(noun.) the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots.

(verb.) to strike, thrust or shove against; 'He butted his sister out of the way'; 'The goat butted the hiker with his horns'.

(verb.) place end to end without overlapping; 'The frames must be butted at the joints'.

整理:桑娅

• Stephenson laid down new rails at Killingworth with half-lap joints, or extending over each other for a certain distance at the ends, instead of the butt joints that were formerly used. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• He straightened himself then, and I saw that what he held in his hand was a sort of gun, with a curiously misshapen butt. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He imitated the action of a man's being impelled forward by the butt-ends of muskets. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The butt and body are dovetailed together. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The sailor's hand crept slyly to the butt of one of his revolvers; his wicked eyes glared vengefully at the retreating form of the young Englishman. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• In the dark he had dragged it, butt first, to the lee of the rock wall. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• If tradition were a reverent record of those crucial moments when men burst through their habits, a love of the past would not be the butt on which every sophomoric radical can practice his wit. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The splint machines were for slitting a block of wood of the proper height downward nearly the whole way into match splints, leaving their butts in the solid wood. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• He made the first metal lathe for cutting out the butts of gun-barrels. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Those can see thy cigarette butts, the woman said. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• There is no use, no heroism, in butting against the inevitable, yet nothing is entirely inevitable. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I am only waiting here till the enemy goes, returns Mr. Guppy, butting inward with his head. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• These military gentlemen are ungrateful to an invention which shoved and butted them into victory almost in spite of themselves. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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