buttery hatch

noun

An opening in the wall (originally of a buttery) through which drinks and provisions can be served.

First used 16th c.
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Meanings

nounbuttery hatch (plural buttery hatches)

plural buttery hatches

  1. An opening in the wall (originally of a buttery) through which drinks and provisions can be served.First known use 16th c.

    [H]e built a dining-room close to his kitchen, with a buttery-hatch opening into it, so that he and his friends might enjoy beef-steaks, hot and hot, upon the same plan as the members of the Beef-steak Club are supplied at their room in the Lyceum.

    1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 69
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