butt ((v.))†

Lumbering

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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remove a damaged or otherwise unsatisfactory end from a log or length of timber.

Quotations

1858

[Chas. Perry's sawmill has] . . . in all 130 saws, besides circulars for butting, cutting laths, etc.

1945

This piece would have a bruised or split end cut off--"butted," as the phrase was. . . .