Meaning of slide-butt | Babel Free

Definitions

A horse- or ox-drawn cart, with runners instead of wheels, used for carrying dung.

West-Country, obsolete

Examples

“The slide-butt is a strong, oblong box, sufficiently capacious to hold⟳ three or four common wheel-barrows of earth or compost; it is shod with thing rough pieces of timber, and is convenient of spreading dressing over field, in small heaps. Two oxen, or one horse are employed to draw⟳ it.”

“SLIDE-BUTT, in Agriculture, a sort⟳ of sledge in the form⟳ of a strong oblong box, shod underneath with thick pieces of timber. It is chiefly used for drawing manure from place⟳ to place⟳, but chiefly in fields. It will contain⟳ about three wheel-barrows' full. Sometimes the butt has wheels, and when this is the case it is called a gurry.”

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