Related Searches
on Ask.com
buttery - 6 dictionary results
but⋅ter⋅y
2 [buht-uh-ree, buh-tree]
–noun, plural -ter⋅ies.
| 1. | Chiefly New England. a room or rooms in which the provisions, wines, and liquors of a household are kept; pantry; larder. |
| 2. | a room in colleges, esp. at Oxford and Cambridge universities, from which articles of food and drink are sold or dispensed to the students. |
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
Cite This Source
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
Cite This Source
|
Link To buttery
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Cite This Source
Buttery
But"ter*y\, a. Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.Buttery
But"ter*y\, n.; pl. Butteries. [OE. botery, botry; cf. LL. botaria wine vessel; also OE. botelerie, fr. F. bouteillerie, fr. boutellie bottle. Not derived from butter. See Bottle a hollow vessel, Butt a cask.]1. An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept. All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars, pantries, and butteries, to the north. --Sir H. Wotton. 2. A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students. And the major Oxford kept the buttery bar. --E. Hall. 3. A cellar in which butts of wine are kept. --Weale. Buttery hatch, a half door between the buttery or kitchen and the hall, in old mansions, over which provisions were passed. --Wright.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Cite This Source
Cite This Source
Language Translation for : buttery
Spanish:
mantecoso,
German:
butterig,
Japanese:
バターの付いた
Copyright © 2009, Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.


ə