abutter

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English

Etymology

From abut +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /əˈbʌ.tɚ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)

Noun

abutter (plural abutters)

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 […]
- 2015 April 23, 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

^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abutter”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 11.

Anagrams

batture

[SOED-1] Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abutter”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 11.

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