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Definition of Butteries
1. buttery [n] - See also: buttery
Literary usage of Butteries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Civil War in Song and Story: 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1889)
"Halting only to place his butteries, ht at once opened (in-, and from four o'clock
till dark the buttle raged >h ng the whole of the now extended line, ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1892)
"... numbering 80 officers and 800 men : and 1 regiment of field artillery, numbering
33 officers and 360 men. consisting of 4 butteries of 8 pieces each, ..."
3. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F. R. S.,from His Ms. Cypher by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke, Mynors Bright (1884)
"After coming home from the schools, I out with the landlord to Brazen-nose
College ; — to the butteries, and in the cellar find the hand of the Child of ..."
4. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys from His MS. Cypher in the Pepsyian by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1885)
"After coming home from the schools, I out with the landlord to Brazen-nose
College; — to the butteries, and in the cellar find the hand of the Child of ..."
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