Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ship-building, the end of a plank which fits into the rebate of the stem-post or the stern-post.
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If that should prove to be the case, it would mean that there was something the matter more serious than the mere straining of the ship; possibly a butt or a hood-end had been started.
A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story Harry Collingwood 1886
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