abut
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From Old French abouter, aboter; compare French aboutir, and also abuter; a (Latin ad) + Old French boter, buter (“to push”). Compare French bout (“end”), and but (“end, purpose”).
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abut (third-person singular simple present abuts, present participle abutting, simple past and past participle abutted)
- (intransitive) To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent; to project; to terminate; to be contiguous; to meet.
- In a time when Germany still abutted upon Russia.
- His land abuts on the road.
- (transitive) To abut on.
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to border on
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[edit] Kiput
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From Proto-North Sarawak *rabut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *rabut.
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abut
- to pluck
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