butt weld

noun

1. a weld between two pieces of metal butted together with the abutted ends shortened and thickened and fused together under heat.

butt weld

noun

1. See butt joint

Word History and Origins

Origin of butt weld¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

“I used a steel tube with a butt weld down the length of it. We don’t have much of the seamless kind. Too expensive. We used what we had on your last rockets.”

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The bar is shaped in the same way as for a butt weld.

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A butt weld was where the two ends of the steel sheet that made the tube were simply pushed together and welded.

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