Crossword clues for trencher
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.
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The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food.
It could be no ordinary declension of nature that could bring some men, after an ingenuous education, to place their ``summum bonum'' upon their trenchers.
--South.Trencher cap, the cap worn by studens at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, having a stiff, flat, square appendage at top. A similar cap used in the United States is called Oxford cap, mortar board, etc.
Trencher fly, a person who haunts the tables of others; a parasite. [R.]
--L'Estrange.Trencher friend, one who frequents the tables of others; a sponger.
Trencher mate, a table companion; a parasite; a trencher fly.
--Hooker.
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).
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.
WordNet
n. someone who digs trenches
a wooden board or platter on which food is served or carved
Wikipedia
A trencher (from Old French tranchier; "to cut") is a type of tableware, commonly used in medieval cuisine. A trencher was originally a flat round of bread used as a plate, upon which the food could be placed to eat. At the end of the meal, the trencher could be eaten with sauce, but was more frequently given as alms to the poor. Later the trencher evolved into a small plate of metal or wood, typically circular and completely flat, without the lip or raised edge of a plate. Trenchers of this type are still used, typically for serving food that does not involve liquid; the cheeseboard is perhaps the most common type in the West.
A trencher is a piece of construction equipment used to dig trenches, especially for laying pipes or cables, for installing drainage, or in preparation for trench warfare. Trenchers may range in size from walk-behind models, to attachments for a skid loader or tractor, to very heavy tracked heavy equipment.
Trencher may refer to:
- Trencher (comics), a comic book series
- Trencher (machine), a digging machine
- Trencher (tableware), a place setting item (originally a flat round of bread)
- Trencher cap, a square academic cap
- Trencher (band), a London-based Casio-core band
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 Images of Shadow Hawk #2. However there never was a 5th issue and the next Trencher appearances was in Images of Shadowhawk #1–3 in 1993 also from Image Comics, Trencher X-Mas Bites Holiday Blow-Out in December 1993 and in Blackball Comics #1 in March 1994, both from short-lived UK publisher Blackball Comics. Giffen illustrated this in a sort of twisted ligne Claire style with some hyper-detailed elements of Geoff Darrow. All stories are ultraviolent and a parody of the then prevalent "Image Comics style".
Trencher, formed in 2001, is a London-based band. They have toured extensively with bands such as The Locust, Some Girls and Daughters amongst others. They were one of the last bands to record a Peel Session in 2004. They are currently signed to Southern Records and released their first full album Lips in 2006.
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.