Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A market-cross near which butter is sold.
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Examples
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One Setterdy aw donn'd misen up i 'mi Sundy clooas an went for a walk throo th' market, an when aw coom to th 'butter-cross aw saw a chap' at had a cock an two hens in a basket for sale, an he offered 'em to me for ten shillin '.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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