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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
abut /əˈbʌt/

▶verb (abuts, abutting, abutted)

1 (of land or a building) be next to or share a boundary with.

2 touch or lean on.

– origin ME: from Anglo-Latin abuttare, from a- ‘to’ + OFr. but ‘end’; sense 2 is from OFr. abouter, from a- + bouter (see butt1.

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