Hypertext Webster Gateway: "abutting"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Abut \A*but"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Abutted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Abutting}.] [OF. abouter, aboter; cf. F. aboutir, and also
abuter; a (L. ad) + OF. boter, buter, to push: cf. F. bout
end, and but end, purpose.]
To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to
meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the
road.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
abutting
adj : having a common boundary or edge; touching; "abutting lots";
"adjoining rooms"; "Rhode Island has two bordering
states; Massachusetts and Conncecticut"; "the side of
Germany conterminous with France"; "Utah and the
contiguous state of Idaho" [syn: {adjacent}, {adjoining},
{bordering(a)}, {conterminous}, {contiguous}]
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