butt¹ n OED ~ sb² 1 b 'cask for fish, fruit' obs (1423-1753). A type of cask for dried cod-fish or other goods.
   P 102-60 In the fall of the year before closing up the shop, dry goods left over from the summer [were stowed] away for the winter in tin-lined wood cases. This we did every fall and put a sugar butt with its head on a swivel so as it would tip every time a rat passed over it and down he would go never to return. T 90-64 The donkey was a inch shorter, with a 24-inch head, and the butt had a 28-inch head and it was 32 inches long... The butt, from 18 inches up, would take the larger fish. M 71-94 I was the first one to carr' a butt of sugar out of Fair Island Tickle. [It was] 385 pounds and I had sugar to last us till December when we knocked off. P 127-73 ~ bigger round but not as high as a cask.

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