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buttery bar

buttery bar noun: a shelf attached to the top of the bottom half of the door to the buttery, on which the person tapping the butts would place full cups for the drinkers.

Noun

buttery bar (plural buttery bars)

  1. (historical) A shelf attached to the top of the bottom half of the door to the buttery, on which the person tapping the butts would place full cups for the drinkers.
    • I never heard. I heard also that Master Vicar of Croydon, and all the remnant of the priests of London that were sent for, were sworn, and that they had such favor at the Council's hand that they were not lingered nor made to dance any long attendance to their travail and cost, as suitors were...1534, Thomas More's Account, in a letter to his daughter Margaret Roper, of his First Interrogation (before the King's Commissioners at Lambeth, April 13, 1534)
    • SIR ANDREW An you part so, mistress, I would I might never draw sword again. Fair lady, do you think you have fools in hand?
      MARIA Sir, I have not you by the hand.
      SIR ANDREW Marry, but you shall have; and here's my hand.
      MARIA Now, sir, 'thought is free:' I pray you, bring your hand to the...c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Forms of buttery bar

pluralbuttery bars

Origin of buttery bar

buttery (“a room where the butts or casks of wine are kept”) + bar

Questions about buttery bar

What does buttery bar mean?
Buttery bar means a shelf attached to the top of the bottom half of the door to the buttery, on which the person tapping the butts would place full cups for the drinkers.
What part of speech is buttery bar?
Buttery bar is a noun.
What is the plural of buttery bar?
The plural of buttery bar is buttery bars.

Words near buttery bar in the dictionary

  1. Butterworth filter
  2. Butterworth filters
  3. Butterworths
  4. butterworts
  5. buttery
  6. buttery bar
  7. buttery bars
  8. buttery hatch
  9. buttery hatches
  10. buttery smooth
  11. Butterys

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