butting
Speech parts
1. butting - Noun
2. butting - Verb
Meaning
of But
of Butt
An abuttal; a boundary.
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Congratulations to the Italian people for winning the World Cup. ... They won after France's best player got ejected for head butting. That's the closest anyone in a French uniform has come to combat in 60 years.
The ancients, even though they believed in destiny, believed primarily in nature, in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself. It was butting one's head against a wall.
All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.
An ox with long horns, even if he does not butt, will be accused of butting.
Adam and gary have been butting heads, with Adam determined to prove that he is a loan shark and a violent thug.
Byers said equipment at the site will generate about 63 decibels measured about 30 feet away, noise he said butting landowners would not be able to hear, and which would not be as loud as traffic going by on the road.