[əˈbʌt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- (of a building or an area of land) be next to or have a common boundary with
(e.g: gardens abutting Great Prescott Street)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘lean forward’): partly from Anglo-Norman French and Old French abouter ‘to look out’, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to, at’) + bouter ‘strike, butt’, of Germanic origin (compare butt); and partly from Old French abuter ‘to arrive’, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to, at’) + but ‘end’