abuttal

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English

Etymology

From abut +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

Noun

abuttal (plural abuttals)

  1. (rare, plural only) The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; buttals.
    • 1596, Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Law:
      The land is set forth by bounds and abuttals.
  2. An abutment.
  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. 1.0 1.1 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.