abutter

abutter

English

Etymology

abut +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈbʌ.tɚ/
• Rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)

Noun

abutter (plural abutters)

1. One who, or that which, abuts, specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate. [First attested in the late 17^th century.][1]

   the abutters on a street or a river

   • 1886, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME transactions, volume 7:

     But said corporation shall not acquire title to any land, nor enter upon any street, until all damages to the owners of land and abutters on any part of a street occupied, or to be occupied, by its structure have been paid or secured […]

   • April 23 2015, James Kinsella writing in The Enterprise, Heritage Hearing Boils Over

     Residents continually brought up the aerial park, which had been quickly approved by the committee a year earlier after Heritage failed to notify abutters about the proposal. And Mr. Collins continually banged his gavel to cut them off.

References

1. “abutter” in Lesley Brown, editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 11.

Anagrams

• batture