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noun
1.
a person or thing that digs trenches.
2.
ditchdigger (def. 3).
3.
a rectangular or circular flat piece of wood on which meat, or other food, is served or carved.
4.
such a piece of wood and the food on it.
5.
Archaic. food; the pleasures of good eating.
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Trencher
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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World English Dictionary
| trencher1 (ˈtrɛntʃə) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | (esp formerly) a wooden board on which food was served or cut |
| 2. | another name for mortarboard Also called: trencher cap |
| [C14 trenchour knife, plate for carving on, from Old French trencheoir, from trenchier to cut; see | |
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Word Origin & History
trencher
c.1308, "wooden platter on which to cut meat," from Anglo-Fr. trenchour, from O.N.Fr. trencheor "a trencher," lit. "a cutting place," from O.Fr. trenchier "to cut" (see trench).
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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trencher
originally a thick slice of bread, used as a primitive form of plate for eating and for slicing meat (hence its derivation from "trancher"-to cut, or carve), but by the 14th century a square or circular wooden plate of rough workmanship. There was usually a small cavity for salt in the rim of the wooden plate, and sometimes the main section was so formed that it could be turned over and the other side used for a second course
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