[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.

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1742.  Jarvis, Quix., II. IV. vii. 314 (D.). The calling he is of allows of no catering nor butlering.

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1826.  Blackw. Mag., XIX. 587. We have consigned the flasks … to the safe custody of Ambrose, till they can be butlered by Hogg.

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1855.  Dickens, Dorrit (Househ. ed.), 317/1. As nations are made to be taxed, so families are made to be butlered.

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