nonce-wd. [f. prec.] To use the butt-end (e.g., of a gun). So Butt-ending vbl. sb.
1859. M. Thomson, Story of Cawnpore, 48 (Hoppe). For destructive aggression, battering, and butt-ending, the palm must be awarded to the privates of Her Britannic Majesty’s —— Regiment.
