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buttery hatches

buttery hatches is the plural of buttery hatch.

Meaning of buttery hatch

Noun

buttery hatch (plural buttery hatches)

  1. An opening in the wall (originally of a buttery) through which drinks and provisions can be served.
    • [H]e built a dining-room close to his kitchen, with a buttery-hatch opening into it, so that he and his friends might enjoy beef-steaks, hot and hot, upon the same plan as the members of the Beef-steak Club are supplied at their room in the Lyceum.1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 69

Questions about buttery hatches

What is buttery hatches the plural of?
Buttery hatches is the plural of buttery hatch.

Words near buttery hatches in the dictionary

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

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