"butt-woman" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1862, Margaret Goodman, Experiences of an English Sister of Mercy, London: Smith and Elder, page 26:",
          "text": "My thoughts always revert to the angry butt-woman when the second chapter of St. James' Epistle is read in its ordinary course.",
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          "ref": "1892 September, Annie Thomas, “The Honourable Jane.”, in Belgravia: a London magazine, volume 79, page 10:",
          "text": "\"It was more like a funeral than a wedding,\" said the butt-woman, who was the sole spectator of the ceremony, with the exception of the bride's uncle and aunt, told her friends afterwards.",
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          "ref": "1909 March, Edna Bourne Holman, “At Herrick's home in Devon”, in Scribner's Magazine, volume XLV, number 3, page 259:",
          "text": "The butt-woman was just setting forth the need of money for church repairs but she interrupted herself when she found me studying monuments.",
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        "A female lay church worker who tends the pews in a church; a sextoness."
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        "(obsolete, chiefly British) A female lay church worker who tends the pews in a church; a sextoness."
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