...and a 'water butt' is probably how rural folk in England best know that term. A 'water butt' filled up with rainwater from the gutters was what you used to water the garden with, drown excess kittens in and so on.
Oddly, growing up with 'everyone' having a 'water butt', a 'butt' was a big container full of water, only with the internet and the consequent invasion of Americanisms have I learned a 'butt' is a 'bottom'.
Oddly, growing up with 'everyone' having a 'water butt', a 'butt' was a big container full of water, only with the internet and the consequent invasion of Americanisms have I learned a 'butt' is a 'bottom'.