Obs. rare. [app. ad. Du. boterham ‘slice of bread-and-butter,’ used in a slang or humorous sense.] ? A partial lining to a cloak.
[1863. Good Words, 868. [A Dutchman says] ‘Give me a butterham with flesh and a half-bottle wine.’]
1716. Mrs. Behn, Dutch Lov., III. ii. 189. A Cloak … not through lin’d, but fac’d as far as ’twas turn’d back, with a pair of frugal *Butter-hams.
