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Butler vs Butlerage - What's the difference?

butler | butlerage |

As nouns the difference between butler and butlerage

is that butler is a manservant having charge of wines and liquors while butlerage is a duty formerly paid to the king's butler on every tun of wine imported into England by foreign merchants.

As a verb butler

is to buttle, to dispense wines or liquors; to take the place of a butler.

As a proper noun Butler

is {{surname|A=An English and Irish occupational surname for someone who was a butler or wine servant|from=Middle English}.

butler

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.
  • The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.
  • * 1929 , Baldwyn Dyke Acland, Filibuster , Chapter 2
  • *:“One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler' and three to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …"
  • A valet, a male personal attendant.

    • Derived terms

    * buttle (backformation)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To buttle, to dispense wines or liquors; to take the place of a butler.

    • References

    butlerage

    English

    Noun

  • (legal, archaic) A duty formerly paid to the king's butler on every tun of wine imported into England by foreign merchants.
    • (Blackstone)
    (Webster 1913)