What is "abut on"

Usage examples of "abut on".

For close under the railings which abut on Orpington Square, in a pool of blood we found just such an instrument as Bristol had described.

And I speculated as to why all the dwellings I had seen did not abut on this highway but stood always some distance from it.

Vermont, New Hampshire, the interior portion of the State of New York, and all the portions of the other States which abut on the great lakes, are healthy, owing to the dryness of the atmosphere being softened down by the proximity of such large bodies of water.

Then you know too that it is everywhere overhung with windows, so that all the chambers and corridors that abut on it may receive the benefit.

CONTESSA: Then you know too that it is everywhere overhung with windows, so that all the chambers and corridors that abut on it may receive the benefit.

This afternoon a carrier's cart with two men made a call at the empty house whose grounds abut on ours, the house to which, you will remember, the patient twice ran away.