† Buttal, buttel v.

Obs. [f. prec. sb.]

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1. trans. To bound or limit, to set boundaries to; to mete out. Hence Butteling vbl. sb.

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1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. lxxiv. 2. Inasmuch as they wer wont to buttel out grounds with metepoles. Ibid. Y^t God (by y^e secret buttelling of his own good pleasure, as it were by a tenfoote rod) bounded out Israel from the other nacions. Ibid. (1583), Calvin on Deut., clxxxi. 1124. Some Geometrician that should haue butteled and bounded the whole world.

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2. To abut, be bounded. Const. of.

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1642. in T. Gardner, Hist. Dunwich (1754), 166. A Porch. Houst that stound in the South Stret, buteling of Robart Barfot on the North Syd, butel of South Fisher-Way on South; butel East latle Houses; butel on West upon latly caled Maynfeld.

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