Butt, subst. 1) a cask containing two hogsheads: “a rotten carcass of a b.” Tp. I, 2, 146 (most M. Edd. “boat).*I escaped upon a b. of sack,” II, 2, 126. II, 2, 126 III, 2, 1. “you ruinous b.” Troil. V, 1, 32 (why that epithet?).
2) mark, aim: “as an aim or b.” H5 I, 2, 186. “I am your b., and must abide your shot,” H6C I, 4, 29.
3) goal, bound: “here is my journey's end, here is my b.” Oth. V, 2, 267.
4) a thrust given by a horned animal, or rather the part of the body with which it is given, viz the horned head: “an hasty-witted body would say your head and b. were head and horn,” Shr. V, 2, 41.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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