abuttal

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

abut +‎ -al

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Noun [edit]

abuttal (plural abuttals)

  1. (rare, plural only) The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; buttals. [First attested in the early 17th century.][1]
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Spelman to this entry?)
  2. An abutment. [First attested in the early 17th century.][1]
  3. The act of abutting.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 11: