Meaning

• The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end

• The waste end of anything

• (generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.

• A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.

Meaning

• To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.