Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dung-sledge.
- noun A large butt or cask used as a receptacle for cod-livers.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Penn, dump these in the gurry-butt 'fore you sleep.
Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900
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"'Cause you've jest the same ez lee-bowed him, an 'he don't take that from any boat, not to speak o' sech a driftin 'gurry-butt as you be."
Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900
hernesheir commented on the word gurry-butt
Century Dictionary has wonderful definitions of this term. My my, we've come so far as a species.
December 6, 2010
bilby commented on the word gurry-butt
Where has Century gorn?
August 27, 2015