butter-cloth

“Let the cream be at the temperature of 55 'to 60'; if the weather is cold, put boiling water into the churn for half an hour before you want to use it: when that is poured off, strain in the cream through a butter-cloth.”

Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it

“Meals, edibles, and liquids were diluted with 10 per cent. of grit, and when perchance Tommy strove to strain his hardly-earned beer -- to make a filter of a butter-cloth -- phut! would come”

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899

“Samarai the rain would have gone through the thin fabric of the tent like a rifle bullet through butter-cloth.”

The Lost Valley