butterbox

English

Noun

butterbox (plural butterboxes)

  1. A wooden box in which butter is contained.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 48:
      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.
  2. (US, regional) The bufflehead duck.
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