silent butler

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   a small receptacle with a handle and a hinged lid; used for collecting crumbs or ashes

   Broaderreceptacle

Questions about silent butler

What does silent butler mean?

silent butler means "a small receptacle with a handle and a hinged lid; used for collecting crumbs or ashes".

Is silent butler a common word?

silent butler is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.