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butter boats

butter boats is the plural of butter boat.

Meaning of butter boat

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

Questions about butter boats

What is butter boats the plural of?
Butter boats is the plural of butter boat.

Words near butter boats in the dictionary

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

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