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.

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

From School and Home Cooking by Greer, Carlotta Cherryholmes

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.