buttend

He struck the foundation with the buttend of his spear.

Washington Irving 2004

Work it out with the buttend of a pencil, like a good young idiot.

Ulysses 2003

The man who is at the buttend of a gun, and knows how to aim it so as to pick off a cat at six hundred yards -- that man will let the cat do the worrying.

Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923

Work it out with the buttend of a pencil, like a good young idiot.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

So he starts telling us about corporal punishment and about the crew of tars and officers and rearadmirals drawn up in cocked hats and the parson with his protestant bible to witness punishment and a young lad brought out, howling for his ma, and they tie him down on the buttend of

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

He struck the foundation with the buttend of his spear.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

He struck the foundation with the buttend of his spear.

Washington Irving Charles Dudley Warner 1864

I think if most hulking men walked into a fight armed with a sledge hammer their opponent would be left lying for dead, but Triple H never seems to gain much more than a minimal advantage by lamely nudging the buttend covered by his hand into the mid-section of his opponent.

PWTorch.com 2009

a young lad brought out, howling for his ma, and they tie him down on the buttend of a gun. —

Ulysses 2003