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Butt sb.2. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Butt sb.2 Also 5–6 butte, 5–6 but. [app. first adopted in 15th c. (the ME. butte(ü) belongs to BIT sb.3 of the same ultimate origin); a common Romanic word, F. botte, boute, Sp., Pg. bota, It. botte, late L. butta, buttis cask, wine-skin, of unknown origin; not connected with BOOT sb.3

1   With ‘butt of malmsey’ cf. It. botte di malvasia.]

2   1.  A cask for wine or ale, of capacity varying from 108 to 140 gallons. (Earlier the size was app. much smaller; see quot. 1443; cf. also 1462 in b.) Afterwards also as a measure of capacity = 2 hogsheads, i.e., usually in ale measure 108 gallons, in wine measure 126 gallons; but these standards were not always precisely adhered to.

3 1443.  in Rogers, Agric. & Prices, III. 511/1. [Rhenish 1 butt = 36 gals.].

4 1483.  Act 1 Rich. III., xiii. [The preamble recites that the butt of malmsey formerly held sometimes seven score gallons, and never less than six score; but that through the dishonesty of the merchant strangers it has come to contain ‘scantly five score eight gallons.’]

5 1500.  in Rogers, Agric. & Prices, III. 514/2. [Malmsey 5 butts].

6 1513.  More, Hist. Rich. III. Hastely drouned in a Butte of Malmesey.

7 1593.  Nashe, Christ’s T., 32 a. Buts of Sack and Muscadine.

8 1610.  Shaks., Temp., II. ii. 126. I escap’d vpon a But of Sacke, which the Saylors heaued o’reboord.

9 1727.  Bradley, Fam. Dict., I. Butt, or Pipe, a Liquid Measure, whereof two Hogsheads make a Butt or Pipe, as two Pipes or Butts make one Tun.

10 1731.  Bailey, II. Butt, a large Vessel for Liquids, 120 Gallons of Wine.

11 1836.  H. Coleridge, North. Worthies (1852), I. 22. Did not Joseph Hume graciously receive a butt of cyder?

12   † b.  A cask for fish, fruit, etc., of a capacity varying according to the contents and locality. Obs.

13 1423.  Act 2 Hen. VI., [xi.] xiv. Buttes de Samon … serroient de … iiijll & iiij galons pleinement pakkez [transl. Butts of Salmon … should be of … lxxxiv Gallons fully packed].

14 1462.  in Rogers, Agric. & Prices, III. 315/4. [Salmon (Pershore) 2 pipes at 60/-, 2 butts at 30/-].

15 1481–90.  Howard Househ. Bks., 120. xv. buttes. Schrempes viijd. ijd.

16 1540.  Act 32 Hen. VIII., xiv. For a butte of currantes, iiis. iiiid.

17 1649.  Thorpe, Charge York Assiz., 28. In a Butt of Salmon fourscore and four gallons.

18 1751.  Chambers, Cycl., s.v., s.v., A butt of currants, is from fifteen to twenty-two hundred weight.

19 1753.  Maitland, Edinburgh, v. 327. For ilk Bale of Madder or Butt of Prunes, 1/-.

20   c.  fig.

21 1831.  Galt, in Fraser’s Mag., II. 708. This single fact speaks more than butts and tons of declamation.

22   2.  In wider sense: A cask, barrel.

23 1626.  T. Hawkins, Caussin’s Holy Crt., 343. He liueth like a But, which doth nothing, but leake, and roule vp, and downe.

24 1823.  J. Badcock, Dom. Amusem., 80. To the end which projected overboard, was suspended a water-butt.

25 a. 1859.  L. Hunt, Rob. Hood, II. xxviii. As in a leathern butt of wine Stuck that arrow with a dump.

26   3.  Comb., chiefly attrib., as butt-beer, -cooper, -sling; butt-keeping a., suitable to be kept in butts.

27 1713.  Lond. & Country Brewer, I. (1742), 13. Fine Ales and Butt-beers. Ibid. Many thousand Quarterns of this Malt have been … used … for brewing the Butt-keeping Beers.

28 1771.  Smollett, Humph. Cl., II. 8 June. Whom he treats with … Calvert’s entire butt beer.

29 1836.  Fraser’s Mag., XIV. 477. A pair of butt-slings, strong enough to have held up the cupola of St. Paul’s.

30 1837.  Whittock, Bk. Trades (1842), 161. The Butt-cooper is contined to working for brewers or distillers.

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