abuttal
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Noun edit
abuttal (plural abuttals)
- (rare, plural only) The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; buttals. [First attested in the early 17th century.][1]
- 1596, Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Law:
- The land is set forth by bounds and abuttals.
- An abutment. [First attested in the early 17th century.][1]
- The act of abutting.
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Verb edit
abuttal (third-person singular simple present abuttals, present participle abuttalling or abuttaling, simple past and past participle abuttalled or abuttaled)
- (transitive) To describe a piece of land in terms of its abuttals.
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abuttal”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 11.