But·ter·y, n.; pl. Butteries
 1. An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.
    All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars, pantries, and butteries, to the north.   --Sir H. Wotton.
 2. A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.
    And the major Oxford kept the buttery bar.   --E. Hall.
 3. A cellar in which butts of wine are kept.
 Buttery hatch, a half door between the buttery or kitchen and the hall, in old mansions, over which provisions were passed.
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