Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which voids or annuls; one who vacates or empties.
  • noun Formerly, a tray or basket for carrying away utensils, dishes, etc., no longer required; especially, a tray or basket in which broken meat was carried from the table.
  • noun A clothes-basket.
  • noun A means of avoiding; in the following quotation, a screen from the heat of the sun; an arbor.
  • noun In heraldry, same as flasque.
  • noun In medieval armor, a contrivance for covering any part, of the body which the plate-armor left exposed, as at the joints.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, voids, �mpties, vacates, or annuls.
  • noun A tray, or basket, formerly used to receive or convey that which is voided or cleared away from a given place; especially, one for carrying off the remains of a meal, as fragments of food; sometimes, a basket for containing household articles, as clothes, etc.
  • noun rare A servant whose business is to void, or clear away, a table after a meal.
  • noun (Her.) One of the ordinaries, much like the flanch, but less rounded and therefore smaller.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who, or that which, voids, empties, vacates, or annuls.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an official who can invalidate or nullify
  • noun a hamper that holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet clothes to be dried
  • noun a person who defecates
  • noun a piece of chain mail covering a place unprotected by armor plate

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  • Another heraldry word.

    September 1, 2011