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Meaning of butterbox | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A wooden box in which butter is contained.
  2. The bufflehead duck.
    US, regional

Examples

“A twelve-by-fourteen canvas would not pin in his box, so he had to make a stretcher for it, and very neatly he made it, out of strips of butter-box.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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