Butt

Description

1) The portion of a hide or skin that comes from the buttocks, back and hindquarters, of the animal. The butt portion of a hide is has the strongest and thickest skin.

2) (verb) To place or join two ends together without any overlap. A butt hinge can be used to hold two abutting surfaces.

Authority

• Matt Roberts, Don Etherington, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: a Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1982

• Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

• The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998