trencher

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They imagined the world to be flat and round, like a trencher, and they in the middest.

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  1. noun A wooden board or platter on which food is carved or served.
  2. noun Archaic The pleasure of the table; food.
  3. noun One that digs trenches.

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  • It is a button for my priests cope, which has to be made round like a trencher, and as big as a little trencher, one-third of a cubit wide. —  The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
  • This type of line consisted of a big chain trencher, followed by three powerful rock saws.
  • (This term came from colonial times when food was eaten from a square, hollowed-out block of wood called a trencher.) —  AvaxHome RSS:
  • Gav. Let me see; thou wouldst do well To wait at my trencher, and tell me lies at dinner-time And, as I like your discoursing, I'll have you And what art thou? —  Edward the Second
  • To their palate, nothing seems to be so sweet as the tainted morsel upon the trencher--and to their ear, no sound more grateful than the melancholy echo, from the tread of their own cloister. —  A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English trenchur, from Anglo-Norman trenchour, from trencher, to cut, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *trincāre; see trench.

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  1. from Middle English *trenchour, from Old French *trencheor (Middle Latin reflex trencheator), from trencher, cut: see trench, v. In def. 2 taken as from trench, v., + -er.
  2. from Middle English trenchere, trenchor, trenchour, from Old French trenchoir, trencheoir, a trencher, literally a cutting-place, from trencher, cut: see trench, v.
 

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