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Butt against   /bət əgˈɛnst/   Listen
Butt against

verb
1.
Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary.  Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt, butt on, edge, march.  "England marches with Scotland"
2.
Collide violently with an obstacle.  Synonyms: bump into, jar against, knock against, run into.






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"Butt against" Quotes from Famous Books



... gone with the steamboat Esmeralda up through Black Canyon, thought the great canyon should be entered above Callville after the fall of water in the spring, and his was more nearly a correct idea. The War Department continued, however, to butt against the wrong end, even after the success of the other way had been demonstrated. Some Mormons, who did not know, reported the two hundred miles above Callville to be better than the one hundred below. The two hundred miles above contain some of the most dangerous portions of the river. Colonel ...
— The Romance of the Colorado River • Frederick S. Dellenbaugh



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