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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a kind of wooden pail in which butter was packed and carried; a butter tub.
Quotations
1927
With butter it was even worse. The settlers brought it to the Company's store in small quantities, some more, some less; not in firkins, tinettes or kegs, but in open dishes, covered with a towel, a napkin or a cabbage leaf.
1955
I still can see in the cool larder the curls of butter scooped from the 20 lb. tinnet [sic]. . . .