abuttal

English

Etymology

abut +‎ -al

Pronunciation
  • (US) IPA(key): /əˈbʌt.l̩/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌtəl

Noun

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]
    • 1596, Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Law:
      The land is set forth by bounds and abuttals.
  2. An abutment. [First attested in the early 17th century.][1]
  3. The act of abutting.

Translations

Verb

abuttal (third-person singular simple present abuttals, present participle abuttalling or abuttaling, simple past and past participle abuttalled or abuttaled)

  1. (transitive) To describe a piece of land in terms of its abuttals.

References
  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.
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