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trencher
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synonyms: charger ???
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Definition:a platter for food, made of either bread or wood
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A servant placed a thick bread trencher in front of Philip, then put on it a fish fragrant with Brother Milius's herbs.
Ken Follett. The Pillars of the Earth, p.133 (1990)
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SUB. She now is set
At dinner in her bed, and she has sent you
From her own private trencher, a dead mouse,
And a piece of gingerbread, to be merry withal,
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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When they were sat down, the farmer placed me at some distance from him on the table, which was thirty feet high from the floor. I was in a terrible fright, and kept as far as I could from the edge for fear of falling. The wife minced a bit of meat, then crumbled some bread on a trencher, and placed it before me. I made her a low bow, took out my knife and fork, and fell to eat, which gave them exceeding delight.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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seemed no more odd as a head-dress than the gold trencher we call a halo.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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rushing down the stairs into the dining-hall, he sprang upon the great table, flagons and trenchers flying before him, and he cried aloud before all the company that he would that very night render his body and soul to the Powers of Evil if he might but overtake the wench.
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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