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trencher
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trencher \Trench"er\, n. [OE. trencheoir, F. tranchoir, fr. trancher to cut, carve. See Trench , v. t.] One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches. A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use. The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who digs trenches a wooden board or platter on which food is served or carved
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) A long plate on which food is served and/or cut. 2 One who trenches; especially, one who cuts or digs ditches. 3 A machine for digging trenches.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Trencher is an American comic book series, that was created, written and drawn by Keith Giffen and released by Image Comics in 1993 . It totaled only four issues before it ended, with a 5th issue indicated in the end caption, and an ad for a 5th issue in ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"wooden platter on which to cut meat," c.1300, from Anglo-French trenchour , Old North French trencheor "a trencher," literally "a cutting place," from Old French trenchier "to cut, carve, slice" (see trench ).
Usage examples of trencher.
Rica, from long habit, dished their trencher full of the brewet, stabbing a choice bit of mutton from the carmeline sauce with her knife.
Elise almost breathed an audible sigh of relief when Ramonda came through the doorway, but she lay without stirring, watching from beneath lowered lids as the woman crossed to the table, carrying in a trencher of meats and bread and a mug of some unknown brew.
Noticing the food Ramonda was gathering on the trencher, she found an excuse for delay.
He seized the trencher from Ramonda and, setting it on the table, lifted the bread.
With a grin at the old man who was unbent by the passage of years, he sat on the bed and held out his hands for a trencher.
Sir Terent helped divide the food into the wooden trenchers that Lyias unstacked and held for him.
Relkin had collected a trencher of pie, plus the pail of dumplings and akh, and a shoulder sack full of hot bread.
Then some of the younger Cords hurried forward with their trenchers, carrying food and drink to the circles, while others brought waterskins so that the sitting Ramen and their guests could wash their hands.
When the younger Cords had passed around more water for the washing of hands, they cleared away the trenchers and waterskins.
There were no homely bread trenchers here and gingerly Cressida handled the newfangled two-pronged fork provided.
Goblets were continually being emptied and refilled and an animated buzz of conversation filled the hall as feasters were being served and trenchers of translucent amber replenished.
Near everyone in the place was crowded up against the dirty glass, watching as the hawk-nosed stranger poured two full tankards and slid them across the table, emptying eating forks and trencher knives out of the last tankard and sliding them across too.
Sir Terent helped divide the food into the wooden trenchers that Lyias unstacked and held for him.
Long trestle tables littered with trenchers, riddled wheels of cheese, bread crumbs, and platters of picked-over meat bones stretched the length of the room in a double row, leaving an empty aisle that reached all the way to the great hearth at the north end.
He commanded the serving men to bring them mutton chops and a slice off the aurochs and fill their trenchers with beef-and-barley stew.