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  1. Butte
    [disambiguation] A butte is a landform. Butte may also refer to: ...
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  2. Butte
    A butte (pron) is a conspicuous isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top; it is smaller than mesas, plateaus, and table landforms. In some regions, such as the north central and northwestern United States, the word is used for any hill. The word butte comes fr...
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  3. butte
    A conspicuous, isolated, flattop hill with steep slopes.
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  4. Butte
    Butte noun [ French See Butt a bound.] A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region. « The creek . . . passes by two rem...
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  5. Butte
    noun a town in southwestern Montana; center for mining copper
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  6. butte
    noun a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides
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  7. butte
    a flat-topped landscape feature with steep sides that is surrounded on all sides by lower areas
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  8. Butte
    • (n.) A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region.
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  9. butte
    flat-topped hill surrounded by a steep escarpment from the bottom of which a slope descends to the plain. The term is sometimes used for an elevation ...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/135



  1. Butte
    city, seat (1881) of Silver Bow county, southwestern Montana, U.S., on the western slope of the Continental Divide.[1 related articles]
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  2. Butte
    A narrow flat-topped hill of resistant rock with very steep sides. Probably formerly a mesa.
    Found op http://www.desertusa.com/glossary2.html

  3. butte
    Big Southern Butte, Idaho. Credit: U.S. Bureau of Land Management A small, flat-topped hill formed when erosion dissects a mesa.
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  4. butte
    butte, an isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top, resulting from the more rapid erosion of the surrounding areas. Buttes are characteristic of the plains of the W United States. See mesa.
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  5. Butte
    Butte (byOOt) , city (1990 pop. 33,336), seat of Silver Bow co., SW Mont.; inc. 1879. It is a trade, ranching, and industrial center. Mining dominated the city's life and economy from its establishment in 1862. Copper, as well as zinc, silver, manganese, gold, lead, molybdenum, and arsenic have been...
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  6. Butte
    A butte is an isolated abrupt flat-topped hill found in the west USA.
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  7. Butte
    Butte is a soft, white French cheese with a thick white natural mould rind, made from cow's milk.
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  8. Butte
    [Besançon] Butte is a sector of Besançon, located in the center of the city == History == == Geography == The area is located near the historical center, near Grette and Saint-Ferjeux == Education == == Buildings military == == Administrative Buildings == == Transport == The secor is serve...
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  9. butte
    1) A conspicuous, isolated, flattop hill with steep slopes 2) Big sky country city 3) City in montana 4) Copper capital of the late 1800s 5) Crested ..., colo 6) Crested ..., colo. 7) Desert feature 8) Evel knievel's hometown 9) Flat-top...
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/butte/1

  10. Butte
    Name for the back supported basket of grapes for the transport in the Vintage is used. Local differences, there are also the names Beschoff, vat, Hotte, Legel and Logel. The former made of wicker or wood, and now usually made from galvanized steel or plastic container holds about 30 to 40 kg of grap...
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