| 单词 |
buttal |
| 释义 |
▪ I. † ˈbuttal, n. Obs.
Forms: 6 buttel(l, buttelle, 6–7 buttal(l, 7 buttle, butel.
[? f. butt v.2 + -al1 2; cf. abuttal.]
A bound or boundary.
1552Huloet, Buttel, or bound of land, meta. 1577Test. 12 Patriarchs (1604) 85, I have not..removed the bounds and buttles of lands. 1598Yong Diana 23 Busines about the buttals of certaine pastures. 1636Healey Theophrast. x. 42 Every day he surveighs his grounds and the buttals thereof, lest there be any incroaching.
b. transf. ? A measured piece (of land). Cf. butt n.6 1 b.
1620R. Brathwait Five Senses, To purchase a buttall of land from his neighbour.
▪ II. † ˈbuttal, buttel, v. Obs.
[f. prec. n.]
1. trans. To bound or limit, to set boundaries to; to mete out. Hence ˈbutteling vbl. n.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxxiv. 2 Inasmuch as they wer wont to buttel out grounds with metepoles. Ibid. Yt God (by y⊇ secret buttelling of his own good pleasure, as it were by a tenfoote rod) bounded out Israel from the other nacions. 1583― Calvin on Deut. clxxxi. 1124 Some Geometrician that should haue butteled and bounded the whole world.
2. To abut, be bounded. Const. of.
1642in T. Gardner Hist. Dunwich (1754) 166 A Porch-Houst that stound in the South Stret, buteling of Robart Barfot on the North Syd, butel of South Fisher-Way on South; butel East latle Houses; butel on West upon latly caled Maynfeld.
▪ III. buttal
obs. dial. form of bittern.
1691Ray S. & E.C. Wds. Coll. 91 A Buttal; a Bittern. |
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