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[ah-BUT] 
intransitive verb
1. to touch or lie adjacent to a border or side; 'abuts on the road'
transitive verb
2. to border on (something): "The house we buy doesn't need to be perfect, but it should be in a peaceful neighborhood and it must abut a park with running trails."
3. to support as an abutment (as a bridge, dam, or arch)
noun form: abutter
Origin:
Approximately 1450; from Middle English, 'abutten'; from Old French, 'abouter': to border on ('a-': to, from Latin, 'ad-': to + 'bouter': to strike), and from 'abuter': to end at ('a-' + 'but': end). In action:
"She stopped serving her family fish even before town officials here sought permits to operate a sludge-burning sewage plant. DeBruyn's childhood memories of grilling bushels of smelt hooked from the lake are lost on her children.
'We eat pork chops, steak, turkey, occasionally chicken,' she said.
Nor do Verena Owen's four sons eat fish from the pristine waters that abut their Lake County home two miles north of Zion."
Greg Barrett. "Fear of mercury pollution fuels debate over Zion incinerator," Gannett News Service (February 15, 2004).
"After a lengthy debate last Tuesday, Santa Monica's City Council approved, by a 5-2 vote, an updated noise ordinance that was basically the same as the one it rejected last November.
That version was rejected by Council members Michael Feinstein, Herb Katz, Robert Holbrook and Pam O'Connor because they believed there was insufficient data to warrant measuring noise at or near its receptor rather than at its source as the City now does, or establishing 'transition zones' where residential areas abut commercial/industrial areas. They were also worried about the effect the proposed ordinance would have on City businesses."
Hannah Heineman. "Council OKs Noise Ordinance," Santa Monica Mirror (February 18 - 24, 2004).
"Saddle Creek Park and Tenoroc Fish Management Area abut, but the only connection is by water.
That will change soon through a project involving the Florida Trail Association, the Technology Student Association at Sleepy Hill Middle School and Tenoroc's staff.
Work began Saturday on a trail system that will ultimately take hikers from the parking lot for Saddle Creek Park's nature trail all the way to Tenoroc's headquarters on Tenoroc Mine Road."
Tom Palmer. "Students Take On Project to Link Two Parks," The Ledger (February 15, 2004).
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