Obs. Forms: 6 buttel(l, buttelle, 6–7 buttal(l, 7 buttle, butel. [? f. BUTT v.2 + -AL 2; cf. ABUTTAL.] A bound or boundary.
1552. Huloet, Buttel, or bound of land, meta.
1577. Test. 12 Patriarchs (1604), 85. I have not … removed the bounds and buttles of lands.
1598. Yong, Diana, 23. Busines about the buttals of certaine pastures.
1636. Healey, Theophrast., x. 42. Every day he surveighs his grounds and the buttals thereof, lest there be any incroaching.
b. transf. ? A measured piece (of land). Cf. BUTT sb.6 1 b.
1620. Brathwait, Five Senses. To purchase a buttall of land from his neighbour.
