Slide-butt
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Slide-butt is a noun meaning (West Country, obsolete) A horse- or ox-drawn cart, with runners instead of wheels, used for carrying dung.
Meaning
(West Country, obsolete) A horse- or ox-drawn cart, with runners instead of wheels, used for carrying dung.
Example Sentences
The slide-butt is a strong, oblong box, sufficiently capacious to hold three or four common wheel-barrows of earth or compost; it is shod with thing rough pieces of timber, and is convenient of spreading dressing over field, in small heaps. Two oxen, or one horse are employed to draw it.
SLIDE-BUTT, in Agriculture, a sort of sledge in the form of a strong oblong box, shod underneath with thick pieces of timber. It is chiefly used for drawing manure from place to place, but chiefly in fields. It will contain about three wheel-barrows' full. Sometimes the butt has wheels, and when this is the case it is called a gurry.
Word Forms
- slide-butts
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sulkie, tumbril, trundle, slip, slump, slade.
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