Butt [noun]

During this conversation Harry's right hand was resting beneath his jacket, grasping the butt of his revolver.

There is no part of these castings but may be easily conveyed in a common butt or cart.

The beverage warmed him in body; but it would need a butt of it to thaw the misery from his soul.

The next instant, he has raked the butt of your discarded cigarette from beneath your feet with the dexterity of a- 31 - croupier.

She began to see that there was a chance for her to escape being a butt for her school-fellows jokes.

By bending one finger like a hook and striking the butt of the shaft, he could send a harpoon straight to the mark.

Make a girdle around a smooth shaft, or make a shaft with a knob or large joint near the butt.

Wilding alone—the butt of their expostulations—stood quietly smiling, and wiped his face at last with a kerchief of finest lawn.

He lifted it and then allowed the butt to come down and make contact with Lasseroe's skull.

Holaf still remained by my side, and his hand did not leave the oddly-carved butt of the tapered tube-gun.