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Noun
/ˈbətlər/,
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butlers, plural;
  1. The chief manservant of a house

  1. a manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table
  2. English novelist who described a fictitious land he called Erewhon (1835-1902)
  3. English poet (1612-1680)
  4. A butler is a servant in a wealthy, large household. In great houses, the household is sometimes divided into departments with the butler in charge of the dining room, wine cellar, and pantry. ...
  5. Domovoi Butler (known as Butler) is a fictional character in the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer. Known for his skill and strength, he is the bodyguard and mentor of the main character of the series, .
  6. see also Butler Bulldogs men's basketball
  7. Butler is a station on MBTA's Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line, a branch of the Red Line. The station is located at Butler Street and Branchfield Street in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. ...
  8. Butler (dates unknown) was an English professional cricketer who made 21 known appearances in major cricket matches from 1789 to 1801.
  9. Butler is a Borough in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 7,420.
  10. New York Susquehanna & Western Railroad Station, is located in Butler, New Jersey. The station was built in 1872 by the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway and added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 24, 2002. The station is home to the Butler Museum.
  11. The city of Butler is the county seat of Butler County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, situated north of Pittsburgh. The population was 15,121 at the 2000 census.
  12. Butler(Australia) was a rugby league footballer in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) Competition.
  13. Butler is a utility for automating repetitive tasks in Mac OS X by Peter Maurer.
  14. Butler is a surname that has been associated with many different places and people. It can be either: * an English occupational name that originally denoted a servant in charge of the wine cellar, from the Norman French word butuiller. ...
  15. An English and Irish occupational surname for someone who was a butler or wine servant; An Anglicized form of the French surname Boutilier, of similar derivation
  16. (in  Benjamin F. Butler (United States politician and military officer))
  17. College butlers serve the senior members, e.g. at High Table.
  18. The servant in charge of the wines and of officiating at dinner. He also looked after the family 'plate' sometimes sleeping in a room next to the safe in which it was locked at night. ...
  19. ’s Table:  an oval wooden tray on legs whose four sides are hinged to fold out flat when set down
  20. A method of overall scoring in duplicate bridge where every result is subtracted from a datum (average or median) score and converted to IMPs using a table defined by the WBF.
  21. normally Head of the household servants reporting to the master, mistress or in some cases the housekeeper.
  22. by Herman Charles Merivale, starring Toole (1886)
  23. An officer who originally had charge of the wine for the royal table; hence the title of an official of high rank nominally connected with the supply, importation, etc., of wine, but having different duties in different countries and at various times.
  24. (1) Occup. 'the bottler,' i.e. bottle-maker; v. Bottlemaker. The 'pouchemakers, hoteliers, and capmakers' acted together in the York Plays (p. xxii). These bottles were evidently of leather, (2) Offic. 'the bottler,' i.e. butler, one who looked after the bottles. The forms of entry are endless. ...
  25. Just the kind of fellow you want around when Members need doors opening for them, or their hats and coats hanging up.