Definitions

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  • adjective That which abuts or serves as an abutment.
  • verb Present participle of abut.

Etymologies

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abut +‎ -ing

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Examples

  • On either side of the hall, and on either side of the portico, were apartments like those already described as abutting on the same portions of the older palace, differing from them chiefly in being larger and more numerous.

    The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. George Rawlinson 1857

  • Alexandria requires business owners and residents to clear sidewalks "abutting" their property within 24 hours after a storm has ended or face a $50 fine.

    Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post 2010

  • Alexandria requires business owners and residents to clear sidewalks "abutting" their property within 24 hours after a storm has ended or face a $50 fine.

    Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post 2010

  • "abutting" residential property and specifies that "no collective shall be located on a lot … across the street or alley from … a residentially zoned lot or a lot improved with residential use."

    Latest Articles Reason Magazine 2010

  • The only part of the country that experienced an uptick in insurgent activity over the past year, he said, is eastern Afghanistan, particularly the provinces of Wardak and Logar abutting Kabul and the Pakistani frontier belt south of Khost.

    U.S. General Defends Afghanistan Night Raids Yaroslav Trofimov 2011

  • But the owners of properties abutting public alleys claim a right to six feet of land measured out from their buildings, and they will typically seek payment in exchange for keeping parking spaces clear during filming.

    Our Typecast Metropolis Nick Carr 2011

  • In the 1880s the brothers set up the Cosgriff Sheep Company, buying vast acreage in Wyoming, especially land abutting the open range Red Desert, regarded as superior sheep grazing ground.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • From her top-floor studio in a warehouse abutting the Brooklyn Bridge, Ms. Mensch has, since the late '70s, snapped the waterfront in all its grit and glory.

    Favoring Film in a Digital Age Lana Bortolot 2012

  • I admired a property to the southeast abutting another part of the forest until I learned it was a major revving-up zone for snowmobiles in winter, and I saw overpriced sage-land steppe, then some sloping land so high an oxygen mask would have been useful.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • When Wyoming was still a territory a titled Scotsman who had everything owned the Sand Creek Cattle and Land Company ranch abutting what is now Bird Cloud.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

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