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butt

/bʌt/ verbe C2
  1. To strike bluntly, particularly with the head. (transitive)
  2. To strike bluntly with the head. (intransitive) · Rams butt at other males during mating season.
  3. To cut in line (in front of someone). (intransitive, transitive) · Teacher! He just butted me!

He/she/it butts · Prétérit butted · Participe passé butted · Forme en -ing butting

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He/she/it
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Participe passé
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Forme en -ing
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Dans la bibliothèque

The Bull quietly addressed him: “Butt away as much as you will.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 55 · B2
“He never lost his grip; but he got it butt downward for a moment too long.
The Valley of Fear, p. 97 · C1
However, he, like Cæsar Borgia, knew the value of time; and, in order to avoid fruitless toil, he sounded all the other walls with his pickaxe, struck the earth with the butt of his gun, and finding nothing that appeared suspicious, returned to that part of the wall whence issued the consoling sound he had before heard.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 260 · C1
He straightened himself then, and I saw that what he held in his hand was a sort of gun, with a curiously misshapen butt.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 23 · C1

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