ox-butt

noun

ox-butt

noun

Etymology From ox + butt (“cart”).

1

West Country, Obsolete An ox-drawn cart.

The ox-butt has been long established in Cornwall, and is a kind of cart drawn by oxen in yokes.1817, Charles Sandoe Gilbert, An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall, page 352:

Related terms: buttload, gurry-butt, slide-butt

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