Butterbox

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    The bufflehead duck. US, regional

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bufflehead

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"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."

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