butter boat

English

Noun

butter boat (plural butter boats)

1. A shallow jug used for serving meted butter. [from 18th c.]
   • 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 238:

     ‘You've seen me in my Pourpre du Pape, and do you know, that at our last Academy dinner, a stupid fool spilt the butter-boat upon it?’