What is the meaning of Butment?

  • (n.) The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported.
  • (n.) A buttress of an arch; the supporter or that part which joins it to the upright pier.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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