▪ I. putt1 local.
(pʌt)
Also 6 putte, 9 put.
[Variant of butt n.13: cf. also pot n.1 5.]
A small cart used on a farm, esp. for manure: = butt n.13 Also attrib. Hence ˈputtful.
| 1508 Pilton Churchw. Acc. (Som. Rec. Soc.) 56 It. a putteful of erth..iij{supd}. 1766 Willy in Compl. Farmer s.v. Turnep, I pulled them [turnips] before Christmas, and had fifteen putt loads. 1850 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XI. ii. 739 A low single-horse cart like a large wheelbarrow, called a three-wheel put, is common in the [Somerset] hills. 1888 Elworthy W. Som. Wds., Putt,..a heavy, broad-wheeled tipping cart, for manure. This is the ‘fine’ form of what is known as a butt or dung-butt. I never heard a labourer say putt. |
▪ II. putt2 local.
(pʌt)
Also 7 putte.
[Variant of butt n.12: cf. also pot n.1 5 b.]
A basket-trap for catching fish: cf. putcher.
| 1610 J. Guillim Heraldry iv. xi. (1611) 219 The skill of fishing..sometimes with nets, and sometimes with Ginnes, with puttes, Wheels, &c. a 1676 Hale De Jure Maris i. vi. in Hargrave Law Tracts (1787) I. 35 They had..granted these fishing-places,..at their several manors, by the names of rocks, weares, staches, boraches, putts. 1688 R. Holme Armoury ii. xvi. (Roxb.) 79/2. 1873 [see putcher]. 1883 Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4) 125 Putts..are used..for taking salmon, shrimps, and various kinds of fish. |
▪ III. † putt3
Sc. var. poot n.1, poult, young bird.
| 1600 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) 236 (Jam.) Be ressone of the great slauchter of thair puttis and youngeanes. |
▪ IV. putt
var. form of put n.2, n.3, n.4, v.2
▪ V. putt
obs. form, or variant, of put n.1 and v.1; obs. form of pit n.1