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butterboat

butterboat is the alternative form 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

Forms of butterboat

pluralbutterboats

Questions about butterboat

What is butterboat the alternative form of?
Butterboat is the alternative form of butter boat.

Words near butterboat in the dictionary

  1. butterbars
  2. butterbean
  3. butterbeans
  4. butterbird
  5. butterbirds
  6. butterboat
  7. butterboats
  8. butterbodies
  9. butterbody
  10. butterbox
  11. butterboxes

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