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butter boat en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A shallow jug used for serving melted butter.
    • ‘You've seen me in my Pourpre du Pape, and do you know, that at our last Academy dinner, a stupid fool spilt the butter-boat upon it?’ 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 238:

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