BUT'TON-WOOD, noun The Cephalanthus, a shrub of noun America, growing five or six feet high. 1. The Platanus Occidentalis, Western plane-tree, a large tree growing in noun America, producing rough balls, from which it is named. The wood is hard, and used for windlasses, wheels and blocks.
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