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butt noun [rhymes with putt] An abrupt, often blunt edge of a ridge or mountain; also used in place names such as Mollies Butt (NC) at the end of Mollies Ridge in the Smoky Mountains. [DARE labels this usage “especially Southern Appalachians”]
1803 (in 2004 TN Petitions 27) ... along the Extream hight of the mountain that Lays between Stonay Creek and the Holston River to the Ritch butt. 1922 Kephart Our Sthn High 374 Big Butt is what Westerners call a butte. 1956 Fink That’s Why 4 There are not formations like mesas here, and the occasional term butt is in no wise a variant of butte. Instead, it is where the end of a ridge or mountain breaks away sharply to the valley below, or in the mountain phrase, “butts off.”