Vocabulary : Butcher's broom to Butt shaft

Butcher's broom : A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.
Butchery : The business of a butcher. ;; Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. ;; A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.
Butler : An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house.
Butlerage : A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king.
Butlership : The office of a butler.

Butment : A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier. ;; The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported.
Butt : Alt. of But ;; To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut. ;; To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.] ;; To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head. ;; A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads. ;; The common English flounder.
Butt hinge : See 1st Butt, 10.
Butt joint : A joint in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8.
Butt shaft : An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an arrow.

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