trencher
IPA: trˈɛntʃɝ
noun
- (archaic or historical) A plate on which food is served or cut.
- One who trenches; especially, one who cuts or digs ditches.
- A machine for digging trenches.
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Examples of "trencher" in Sentences
- For plates they used what was called a trencher made of wood or pewter.
- The bread soaks up the grease and the suety 'trencher' makes the neighborhood birds very happy. "
- Several women tended a huge pot of bubbling hominy, while baked squash was piled on a long wooden trencher.
- -- Ed. 18 In this country the introduction of earthenware plates has driven the less cleanly wooden plate, called a trencher, entirely out of use.
- So people still ate off their wooden trenchers, and as a wooden trencher is about the best substance I know for holding germs and ferments, people died.
- Using a damp cloth, I carefully sponged the days-old sweat from her body while Blood Thorn sat to one side, a beautifully carved trencher in his lap, spooning food to her by the bite.
- If so, he can instantly transport himself to the times of the wooden "trencher," and the "pewter" mug and pitcher, to the days when iron rails for tramways were unknown, and when even the
- NAWANSHAHR: In order to deal with the labour shortage faced by the farmers during installation of Drip and Sprinkler Irrigation System, the Soil and Conservation department has come up with a new device known as "trencher" for undertaking trenching work in the fields.
- Something larger than the black ones. those Sticks they place in defferent positions which they perform under a kind of trencher made of bark round and about 14 inches diamieter. this is a very intricate game and I cannot Sufficiently understand to discribe it. the man who is in possession of the Sticks &c places them in defferent positions, and the opposit party tels the position of the black Sticks by a motion of either or both of his hands &c. this game is Counted in the Same way as the one before mentioned. all their games are accompanied with Songs and time. at 3 P.
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