buttling

Of some subjects, such as buttling, carpentry, and mending bicycles, it was practical; of others, such as shooting, gardening, and motoring, it was more theoretical.

Simon 1907

Whatever buttling book he'd read, he'd skipped the section on closing doors, but it was a stout door and it stood up to it.

Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961

You aren't going to hold down this buttling job forever, are you?

Piccadilly Jim 1928

And then James comes a buttling in with a lot of sand what the perfessor has baked and made all scientific down in his labertory.

Danny's Own Story 1912

Which brings out harrowin 'tales of war-wrecked homes, where no buttling had been done for months, where chauffeurs and gardeners were only represented by stars on the service flag, and from which even personal maids had gone to be stenographers and nurses.

Torchy and Vee Sewell Ford 1907

"I think -- we've -- we've always did our own buttling," she faltered.

The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Harry Leon Wilson 1903

"Ask him where this guy was buttling, -- in a bank," says I, "or at the

Torchy, Private Sec. Sewell Ford 1907