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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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But, Butt, n.3 [e.m.E. but (1661), butt, perhaps a special sense of butt thick end, etc.] The thick part of a hide; a thick piece of leather.a1568 Bann. MS. 138 a/66.
I haif … Twa buttis of barkit blasnit ledder 1622 Edinb. Test. LI. 224 b.
In the hows tua buttes of lether, pryce of baith ten pundes
