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   butty

   /ˈbʌti/

   noun

   • 1. (among miners) a friend or workmate: informal "his butties did not come to work that morning"
   • 2. a middleman negotiating between miners and the mine owner: historical "the work of everyone depended on the whim of the butty"
   • 3. an unpowered freight barge intended to be towed: "they towed the butty to a quieter part of the wharf"

   Word Origin late 18th century: probably from booty1 in the phrase play booty ‘join in sharing plunder’.

   Scrabble Points: 10

   • B

     3

   • U

     1

   • T

     1

   • T

     1

   • Y

     4

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