butt end

But as Herrick lifted his gun to let the lagging quarry have its butt-end, suddenly Nicola pitched forward and lay at his feet.

Here she comes, dad; butt-end first, walkin' in her sleep same's she done on 'Queereau.

Near it there is a little chair, and the butt-end of a boy's leather long-lashed whip.

They were smugglers who had lost their vessel by a butt-end starting.