butty

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All the earnings of each stall were put down to the chief butty, as contractor, and he divided the wages again, either in the public-house or in his own home.

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  1. A comrade, chum, or partner. [Prov. Eng. and U. S.]
  2. Specifically, in English coal-mining, one who takes a contract, or is a partner in a contract, for working out a certain area of coal. The butty-collier, or first man, as he is called in some coal-mining districts, employs his own holers, fillers, and boys, and has general charge of the work in his own particular “stall,”
  3. In archery, one of a pair of archers who shoot together at a target: as, when the leader has shot his first arrow his butty takes his place.

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  • Most of us Stateside don't know what in the world a chip butty is. —  doggdot.us
  • THE current Mrs Groves lowered the newspaper just enough to bite off another slice of her cod's roe and Marmite butty. —  WalesOnline - Home
  • If you don't know about it, a chip butty consists of two slices of buttered white bread around a healthy (well not exactly "healthy") portion of chips (the big french fry kind, not Lay's). —  Online Marketing Blog
  • Damon should stick to third rate movies and his butty Ben Affleck. —  Hecklerspray
  • Well Preserved - Joel checks out the chip butty at a Toronto FC game. —  Taste T.O. - Food & Drink In Toronto
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  1. English dial., short for butty-fellow, early modern E.boty-felowe, a partner (Palsgrave) (cf. butty-collier, butty-gang), from boty, now booty, plunder,property shared, + felowe, fellow.
 

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