Butler
['bʌtlə] or ['bʌtlɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table.
(noun.) English poet (1612-1680).
(noun.) English novelist who described a fictitious land he called Erewhon (1835-1902).
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Definition
(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.
Editor: Oswald
Definition
n. a servant who has charge of the liquors plate &c.—v.i. to act as butler.—ns. But′lership But′lerage; But′lery the butler's pantry.
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Examples
- It would be better to have the garrisons engaged there added to Butler's command. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I went into the kitchen, the butler's pantry, the gun-room, the billiard-room, the drawing-room, and finally the dining-room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He asked his informant, the butler, whether the doctor had been sent for. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- We separate from Butler so that he cannot be directed how to co-operate. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Chief Butler, erect and calm, replied in these memorable words. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- We are going to send our butler to the sale to-morrow, to pick up some of that sixty-four. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The ex-butler had obtained a small freehold there likewise, which gave him a vote for the borough. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It expresses, as it were, the steward of the legal mysteries, the butler of the legal cellar, of the Dedlocks. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- On the 15th news came from Butler and Averill. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Chief Butler, no doubt, reflected that the course of nature required the wealthy population to be kept up, on his account. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I selected General Weitzel, of the Army of the James, to go with the expedition, but gave instructions through General Butler. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The chief butler was the next magnificent institution of the day. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Tom Moody rides up to the door of the Hall, where he is welcomed by the butler, who offers him drink, which he declines. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was he who taught the butler to say, My lady is served, and who insisted on handing her ladyship in to dinner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- General Butler, taking advantage of this, at once moved a force on the railroad between Petersburg and Richmond. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- People must continue to be married and given in marriage, or Chief Butlers would not be wanted. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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