Butty

In full butty-boat, a second barge or freight-boat in tow by a first.

Quotations:

1909 Quiller Couch True Tilda, p ix:: With two horses hauling at the first [barge], and the second (which Sam called a butty-boat) towed astern.
1923 Blackwood's Magazine, November 663/2:: I overhauled two barges, the foremost with its little steam-engine towing the second or "butty".
1946 Archit. Rev. C. 161/1:: They [sc. barges] go in pairs, a diesel-engined motor boat and a butty boat towed behind … The cabin of the butty is down into the bottom of the boat.

Updated 1996-08-31 by Lars Bruzelius