[f. prec. sb.] In various nonce-uses: a. trans. To take charge of and serve (liquor); also absol. to act as butler; b. pass. To be served by a butler. Hence Butlering vbl. sb.
1742. Jarvis, Quix., II. IV. vii. 314 (D.). The calling he is of allows of no catering nor butlering.
1826. Blackw. Mag., XIX. 587. We have consigned the flasks to the safe custody of Ambrose, till they can be butlered by Hogg.
1855. Dickens, Dorrit (Househ. ed.), 317/1. As nations are made to be taxed, so families are made to be butlered.