When the lash and butt-end of the whip fail him, he does not scruple to use his foot, as the situation of his seat allows the application of it to his wheelers.

It frequently affects only the butt log, but may extend to the entire hole and even the larger branches.

Butt strike and cut DOWN.

In a shelter-tent camp tie the rifle, muzzle up, to the pole of the tent, placing a chip of wood under the butt plate and an oily rag over (never inside) the muzzle.

It is very common in sycamore and in western larch, particularly in the butt portion.

Strange it was to hear them ring through the holy place (French to the Chasseurs, English to the battery), and the crashing musket-butts smite the paved floor as one weapon, to the flash of a hundred sabres.

wrought-iron plates, butt jointed, and double riveted butt straps.

The Americans in the river, held their rifles and ammunition-belts high, and wriggled their hips against the butting force of the stream.

It remained merely to butt-bolt anew the wood-end, drive a few spikes, cork, and replace the copper.

He devised butting matches between himself and a large gourd, which he suspended from the ceiling, and almost blinded himself by his attempts to butt it sufficiently hard to cause it to rebound to the utmost length of the string, and might have made an idiot of himself for ever by his exertions, but for the timely interference of Mr. Ellis, who put a final stop to this diversion.

The butt curves, indeed lies almost horizontal in some cases, for the lowest two or three yards; and the whole stem, up to the top, is inclined to lean; it matters not toward which quarter, for they lean as often toward the wind as from it, crossing each other very gracefully.

The rod was bent into a semicircle, but the game was fast; with the butt firm between his knees and his thumb pressing the reel, the sportsman gave him a hundred and fifty feet of line, when his efforts began to relax, and as Smith began to reel him in, a moment of dead pull, a holding back like an obstinate mule occurred.

Whose hopes butt darkenns moe the mydnyghtt of despayre? MATYLDA.