▪ I. stut, n. Sc. local.
(stʌt)
[Perh. a. or cogn. w. Du. stut (see etym. note s.v. stud n.1); perh. a dial. var. of stud n.1]
A prop.
| 1559 Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 325 Sum remeid to wphald the ruff of the northt yll with propis and stuttis [printed scuttis] for this wyntir sessoun, quhill fair wedder cum, to mend the samen. 1808 Jamieson, Stut, a prop, a support. |
▪ II. stut, v.1 Obs. exc. dial.
(stʌt)
Forms: 4–7 stutte, 6 stutt, (7 stoott), 6– stut.
[ME. stutte-n, f. Teut. root *stut-, ablaut-var. of *staut- as in MLG. stôten, OHG. stôȥen (mod.G. stossen) to knock, strike against, collide. Cf. stote v. 2.]
1. intr. To stutter.
| 1388 [see stutting ppl. a.1]. c 1400 Destr. Troy 3825 Neptolon..stutid full stithly, þat stynt hym to speke. a 1500 Medulla Gram., Blatio, to stutt or stamer. 1516 Life St. Birgette in Kal. New Leg. Eng. (Pynson) 120 b, Nat stuttynge lyke the maner of other children that begynne to speke, she speke complete and full wordes. a 1529 Skelton E. Rummyng 339 Her felow did stammer and stut. 1529 Frith Rev. Antichrist 68 He offendeth also that doth stammer or stutte in the wordes of the canon. 1570 Levins Manip. 178/35 To stoote, stutte, titubare. 1571 Golding Calvin on Ps. v. 5, 13 After the manner of a broken speeche, according as the sainctes in praying doe oftetymes stutte. 1601 B. Jonson Poetaster iv. v, Hee lookes bigge and begins to stut, for anger. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. iii. iii. i. 264 They stutte or faulter in their speech. 1626 Bacon Sylva §386 They that Stut, doe Stut more in the first Offer to speake, than in Continuance. 1638 Junius Paint. Ancients 315 They are deservedly laughed at, who going about to tell a tale doe nothing but stutte and stammer. a 1650 Calderwood Hist. Kirk (1843) III. 414 The King said blushing, and somwhat stootting: ‘Least anie man sould [etc.].’ 1688 Holme Armoury ii. 389/1 A Man..[doth] Stammer, Stut, when the Voice or Words come not freely, that hath an impediment in his Speech. 1797 Gentl. Mag. LXVII. 456 They [sc. cuckoos] stammer (or stut, as it is called in the North of England)..in the month of June. 1818 Wilbraham Chesh. Gloss, Stut, to stutter or stammer. 1825 Brockett N.C. Gloss., Stut, to stutter. |
b. transf. and fig.
| 1577 tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 965 The Lorde..hath a singular care of mans infirmitie, whereby hee framing him selfe to our capacitie, dooth after a sorte stut and stammer with us. 1613 Purchas Pilgrimage i. xi. 51 Megasthenes (whom Annius hath set out as truly as he hath done Berosus, saue that he stutted at the name and called him Metasthenes). |
2. To stumble in walking.
| 1573 Baret Alv. S 905 To Stut: to stagger in speaking or going: to stumble, titubo. 1582 Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 89 In steps he stutted, apaled: And fixt his footing. 1583 Golding Calvin on Deut. xci. 563 It is as though such as haue not learned Gods Word do stut and stumble and go astray. |
▪ III. † stut, v.2 Sc. Obs.
Also 7 stoot.
[f. stut n.; cf. MDu. stutten to prop.]
trans. To prop up, support. Hence ˈstutted ppl. a., ˈstutting ppl. a.2
| 1638 A. Cant Serm. 13 June (1699) 6 Noblemen, these Artificial and stooted Mountains [sc. the bishops], have over⁓toped you who are the Natural Mountains. Ibid. 12 These are the two Pillars whereupon our Mountain of Prelacie is Stooted. 1808 Jamieson, Stut, to prop, to support, with stakes or pillars. 1819 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 218 Frae her four stuttin' pillars stout Lumps of out batter't stane fell out. |
▪ IV. stut(e
see stout, stutte v.