DCHP-1 Online
tinette [< F] Obs. 
n. a kind of wooden pail in which butter was packed and carried; a butter tub.
- 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 (1965) I still can see in the cool larder the curls of butter scooped from the 20 lb. tinnet [sic]. . . .
- 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.