Usually means: Spreading butter on food surface.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. buttering: Merriam-Webster
  2. buttering: Collins English Dictionary
  3. buttering: Vocabulary.com
  4. buttering: Wordnik
  5. buttering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. buttering: Wiktionary
  7. Buttering, buttering: Dictionary.com
  8. Buttering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Buttering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. buttering: FreeDictionary.org
  11. buttering: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buttering: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buttering: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buttering: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Buttering: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. buttering: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  2. National Glass Association Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See butter as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (buttering)

noun:  The action of the verb to butter
noun:  (cooking) The application of butter (“n.”) to something.
noun:  (skiing, snowboarding) The action of a rider having to butter in an acrobatic maneuver.
noun:  The action of turning with only the tips (tail or nose) of skis or snowboards

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