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- noun Enough to fill a
trencher ; aplateful offood .
Etymologies
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trencher + -ful
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Examples
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a trencherful, it should sleep warm in a stocking, instead of being made a brother to owls here, for every rogue to snatch at.
The Saint's Tragedy Charles Kingsley 1847
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