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Webster 1913 Edition
Butte
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Butte
,Noun.
[F. See
Butt
a bound.] A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; – applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region.
The creek . . . passes by two remarkable
buttes
of red conglomerate. Ruxton.