butt ((n.))

Lumbering

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the thickest part of a felled tree or of a log, being that part of the erect tree nearest the roots.

See: butt-end(def. 1)

Quotations

1932

. . . the Boss would pick out a tree for spokes, cut it down, sample the butt cut, and if not satisfied, cut another and let the first one rot.

1957

Men with little axes and hand saws cut pulp logs and marked their names on the butts.