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Webster 1913 Edition

Abut

A-but′

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Abutted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Abutting
.]
[OF.
abouter
,
aboter
; cf. F.
aboutir
, and also
abuter
;
a
(L.
ad
) + OF.
boter
,
buter
, to push: cf. F.
bout
end, and
but
end, purpose.]
To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; – with on, upon, or against;
as, his land
abuts
on the road
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Abut

ABUT'

,
Verb.
I.
To border upon; to be contiguous to; to meet; in strictness, to adjoin to at the end; but this distinction has not always been observed. The word is chiefly used in describing the bounds or situation of land, and in popular language, is contracted into but, as butted and bounded.

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