Dutch hand
Dutch hand noun: a wooden paddle, typically one of a pair, used to press butter when making it at home.
Noun
Dutch hand (plural Dutch hands)
- A wooden paddle, typically one of a pair, used to press butter when making it at home.
- Ranged on shelves along the stone walls would be pans of milk set to rise, buckets and cans, maturing cheeses, butter churns, and butter pats or "Dutch hands" for beating the last traces of water from the golden mass.1977, Richard Daunton-Fear and Penelope Vigar, Australian Colonial Cookery, Rigby, 1977 (discussing a typical kitchen of early colonial Australia)
- Synonyms:
- butter pat
Synonyms of Dutch hand
Forms of Dutch hand
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Questions about Dutch hand
- What does Dutch hand mean?
- Dutch hand means a wooden paddle, typically one of a pair, used to press butter when making it at home.
- What part of speech is Dutch hand?
- Dutch hand is a noun.
- What is the plural of Dutch hand?
- The plural of Dutch hand is Dutch hands.
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