butter boat

noun

A shallow jug used for serving melted butter.

First used 18th c.
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Meanings

nounbutter boat (plural butter boats)

plural butter boats

  1. A shallow jug used for serving melted butter.First known use 18th c.

    ‘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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