butterbox

noun — 2 senses

butterbox

noun

1

A wooden box in which butter is contained.

A twelve-by-fourteen canvas would not pin in his box, so he had to make a stretcher for it, and very neatly he made it, out of strips of butter-box.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 48:

2

US, Regional The bufflehead duck.

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