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butter boat

butter boat noun: a shallow jug used for serving melted butter.

Noun

butter boat (plural butter boats)

  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

Forms of butter boat

pluralbutter boats

Questions about butter boat

What does butter boat mean?
Butter boat means a shallow jug used for serving melted butter.
What part of speech is butter boat?
Butter boat is a noun.
What is the plural of butter boat?
The plural of butter boat is butter boats.

Words near butter boat in the dictionary

  1. butter bars
  2. butter bean
  3. butter beans
  4. butter board
  5. butter boards
  6. butter boat
  7. butter boats
  8. butter bomb
  9. butter bombs
  10. butter bread
  11. butter breads

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