butterbox

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butterbox

noun butterboxes

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.
US, regional The bufflehead duck.

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@misc{butterbox_2026,
  title = {butterbox},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/butterbox},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}