trencher

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noun
  1. a person or thing that digs trenches.

  1. a rectangular or circular flat piece of wood on which meat, or other food, is served or carved.

  2. such a piece of wood and the food on it.

  3. Archaic. food; the pleasures of good eating.

Origin of trencher

1
1275–1325; Middle English trenchour something to cut with or on <Anglo-French; Middle French trencheoir.See trench, -ory2

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How to use trencher in a sentence

  • Moreover, this person was staring directly in trencher's direction.

    From Place to Place | Irvin S. Cobb

British Dictionary definitions for trencher (1 of 2)

trencher1

/ (ˈtrɛntʃə) /


noun
  1. (esp formerly) a wooden board on which food was served or cut

  2. Also called: trencher cap another name for mortarboard (def. 1)

Origin of trencher

1
C14 trenchour knife, plate for carving on, from Old French trencheoir, from trenchier to cut; see trench

British Dictionary definitions for trencher (2 of 2)

trencher2

/ (ˈtrɛntʃə) /


noun
  1. a person or thing that digs trenches

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