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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The head servant in a household who is usually in charge of food service, the care of silverware, and the deportment of the other servants.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A man-servant in a household whose principal duty is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head male servant of a household.
  2. n. The title of an official of high rank nominally connected with the importation and supply of wine for the royal table, but having different duties in different countries and at various times.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.
  2. n. The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.
  3. n. A valet, a male personal attendant.
  4. v. To buttle, to dispense wines or liquors; to take the place of a butler.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. English poet (1612-1680)
  2. n. a manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table
  3. n. English novelist who described a fictitious land he called Erewhon (1835-1902)

Etymologies

  1. From Old French butiller ("officer in charge of wine"). See bottle. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French bouteillier, bottle bearer, from bouteille, botele, bottle; see bottle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. poet
  1. manservant
  1. author
  1. writer

same context (24)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. steward
  2. valet
  3. coachman
  4. housekeeper
  1. footman
  2. groom
  3. waiter
  4. chauffeur
  1. porter
  2. secretary
  3. maid
  4. gardener
  1. servant
  2. policeman
  3. landlady
  4. lackey
  1. chambermaid
  2. nurse
  3. cook
  4. matron
  1. attendant
  2. tutor
  3. constable
  4. bodyguard

rhymes (3)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Cutler
  1. cutler
  1. subtler

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. soap-cyst
  2. boteler
  3. Butler
  4. Erewhon
  5. Hudibrastic
  6. break
  7. cellarer
  8. parlor-maid
  9. butlerage
  1. butlership
  2. Spenser
  3. taws
  4. Gonne
  5. archbutler
  6. butleress
  7. buttle
  8. cellar-book
  9. cellarman
  1. consumah
  2. cynarctomachy
  3. dewtry
  4. khitmutgar
  5. Hickok
  6. Leacock
  7. foot
  8. major-domo
  9. yeatsian
  1. Yeats
  2. Wodehouse
  3. Orton
  4. index
  5. seneschal
  6. assonance
  7. end
  8. pleasure
  9. service
  1. sleep
  2. boy
  3. chief
  4. comprador
  5. contraband
  6. out
  7. reasoning
  8. servant
  9. yeoman

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  • chained_bear In castles, the person in charge of the bottles of beer and wine. (Not to be confused with bottler or buttery.) Aug 24, 2008

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