buttery hatch

English

Noun

buttery hatch (plural buttery hatches)

1. An opening in the wall (originally of a buttery) through which drinks and provisions can be served. [from 16th c.]
   • 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 69:

     [H]e built a dining-room close to his kitchen, with a buttery-hatch opening into it, so that he and his friends might enjoy beef-steaks, hot and hot, upon the same plan as the members of the Beef-steak Club are supplied at their room in the Lyceum.