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buttery bars

buttery bars is the plural of buttery bar.

Meaning of buttery bar

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)

Questions about buttery bars

What is buttery bars the plural of?
Buttery bars is the plural of buttery bar.

Words near buttery bars in the dictionary

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

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