Obs. exc. dial. [? a. F. butte mound, hillock: a parallel formation to but: see prec. Cf. also BUTTE.] A hillock, mound.
1693. Evelyn, De la Quint. Compl. Gard., I. 7. It will not be improper to make a little But or Hillock over those Roots.
1862. Barnes, Rhymes Dorset Dial., I. 166. I used to hop The emmet-buts, vrom top to top. Ibid., II. 197. [He] broke The nut o’ the wheel at a butt.
[1877. Peacock, N. W. Linc. Gloss. (E. D. S.), Butt-hills.]
