Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nautical, said of a yard-arm when it is of considerable diameter and is cut off square at the end instead of tapering down fine.
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Examples
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It had a square-butted ivory handle, and as I saw that ivory handle I knew what the white thing was that had flashed by me only a moment before to fell Mink Satterlee so expeditiously.
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