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English
Verb
butt-weld (third-person singular simple present butt-welds, present participle butt-welding, simple past and past participle butt-welded)
- Alternative form of buttweld
1959 November, “Talking of Trains: Widening north of York”, in Trains Illustrated, page 518:One section of the line will consist of 60 ft. lengths of rail welded together on site to form fully continuous rails; another will be of 300 ft. lengths, flash butt-welded in Dinsdale Rail Welding Depot and fishplated together on site; [...].
1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 398:The steel sheeting was butt-welded and a cover strip screwed over it to cover the joints.