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butterbox en · NOUN

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1. A wooden box in which butter is contained.
   • A twelve-by-fourteen canvas would not pin in his box, so he had to make a stretcher for it, and very neatly he made it, out of strips of butter-box. 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 48:
2. (US, regional) The bufflehead duck.

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