butter spreader

American  

noun

1. a small knife with a wide, flat blade, as for spreading butter on bread or rolls.

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Example Sentences

The upper right-hand side of the bread and butter plate is the place for the butter spreader.

From How to Prepare and Serve a Meal; and Interior Decoration by Lansdown, Lillian B.

Bread and butter plates, with the butter spreader, are always used, except at formal dinners, when the dinner-roll is laid in the fold of the napkin.

From The Etiquette of To-day by Ordway, Edith B.

For the latter, a small knife, called a butter spreader, is sometimes provided.

From School and Home Cooking by Greer, Carlotta Cherryholmes