gurry-butt

Noun

West-Country obsolete

Japanese Meaning

（古語）馬または牛が引く、糞を運搬するための車両 / （古語）魚の内臓類（魚の搾りかすなど）を保管するための大きな樽

What is this buttons?

At dawn the farmer loaded the gurry-butt with fresh manure and trundled it to the fields.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

夜明けに農夫は肥やしを積んだ荷車を畑までごろごろと運んだ。

Details

Sense（1）

(West Country, obsolete) A horse- or ox-drawn cart used for carrying dung.

The "GURRY-BUTT," or DUNG-SLEDGE, of Devonshire, is a sort of sliding cart, or barrow; usually of a size proper to be drawn by one horse: sometimes it is made larger; I have seen four oxen drawing compost upon a fallow, in one of these little Implements; which might, anywhere, be made useful, on many occasions; especially in moving earth, stone, rubbish, or manure, a small distance. The sides and ends are about eighteen inches high, and are fixed; the load being discharged by overturning the carriage.

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Sense（2）

(obsolete) A large cask used for holding fish offal.

"'Wouldn't hev your conscience fer a thousand quintal," said Dan. "Turn in, Penn. You've no call to do boy's work. Draw a bucket, Harvey. Oh, Penn, dump these in the gurry-butt 'fore you sleep. Kin you keep awake that long?"¶ Penn took up the heavy basket of fish-livers, emptied them into a cask with a hinged top lashed by the foc'sle; then he too dropped out of sight in the cabin.

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