Slide-butt
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A horse- or ox-drawn cart, with runners instead of wheels, used for carrying dung. West-Country, obsolete
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From slide + butt (“cart”).
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