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Definition of Butment

Butment
Butment But"ment, n. [Abbreviation of Abutment.] 1. (Arch.) A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier. 2. (Masonry) The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported. Butment cheek (Carp.), the part of a mortised timber surrounding the mortise, and against which the shoulders of the tenon bear. --Knight.

Meaning of Butment from wikipedia

- Look up buter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Buter is a Dutch surname. Notable people with the surname include: Cobie Buter (born 1946), Dutch swimmer...
- In Gr**** mythology, the name Butes (/ˈbjuːtiːz/; Ancient Gr****: Βούτης, Boútēs) referred to several different people. Butes, an Athenian prince as the son...
- Buts is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Petro Buts (born 1966), Ukrainian football player and coach Vitaliy Buts (born 1986), Ukrainian...
- Piet Buter (Dutch pronunciation: [pit ˈbytər]; born 6 June 1949) is a soccer coach from Haarlem, Netherlands. After a number of coaching positions and...
- Michel Butor (French: [miʃɛl bytɔʁ]; 14 September 1926 – 24 August 2016) was a French poet, novelist, teacher, essayist, art critic and translator. Michel...
- "No buts!" is the ninth single released by the J-pop singer Mami Kawada. It was released as a single on November 3, 2010 and its title track was later...
- Butor (Moldovan Cyrillic, Russian, and Ukrainian: Бутор) is a commune in the Grigoriopol District of Transnistria, Moldova. It is composed of two villages...
- Jacobje Jantje "Cobie" Buter (also Coby; born 17 May 1946) is a retired Dutch swimmer who won the bronze medal in 100 m backstroke at the 1970 European...
- Dioptis butes is a moth of the family Notodontidae first described by Herbert Druce in 1885. It is found from Costa Rica north to Belize and Veracruz...
- Petro Mykolayovych Buts (Ukrainian: Петро Миколайович Буц; Russian: Пётр Николаевич Буц; born 2 June 1966) is a Ukrainian professional football coach and...