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Definition of Trencher
1. Noun. Someone who digs trenches.
2. Noun. A wooden board or platter on which food is served or carved.
Definition of Trencher
1. n. One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches.
Definition of Trencher
1. Noun. (archaic) A long plate on which food is served. ¹
2. Noun. One who trenches; especially, one who cuts or digs ditches. ¹
3. Noun. A machine for digging trenches. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trencher
1. a wooden platter for serving food [n -S]
Medical Definition of Trencher
1. 1. One who trenches; especially, one who cuts or digs ditches. 2. A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use. 3. The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food. "It could be no ordinary declension of nature that could bring some men, after an ingenuous education, to place their "summum bonum" upon their trenchers." (South) Trencher cap, the cap worn by studens at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, having a stiff, flat, square appendage at top. A similar cap used in the United States is called Oxford cap, mortar board, etc. Trencher fly, a person who haunts the tables of others; a parasite. Trencher friend, one who frequents the tables of others; a sponger. Trencher mate, a table companion; a parasite; a trencher fly. Origin: OE. Trencheoir, F. Tranchoir, fr. Trancher to cut, carve. See Trench. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trencher
Literary usage of Trencher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"The term, a good trencher-man, was then equivalent to a hearty feeder. [To liefe
the trencher, to act the parasite. ..."
2. Seeding and Planting: A Manual for the Guidance of Forestry Students by James William Toumey (1916)
"Trenching with the Hand trencher. — The hand trencher can often be used to
advantage in making small V-shaped trenches in loose, sandy soil for ..."
3. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1920)
"It is a button for my priest's cope, which has to be made round like a trencher,
and as big as a little trencher, one-third of a cubit wide. ..."
4. The Young Lady's Book: A Manual of Amusements, Exercises, Studies, and Pursuits by Matilda Anne Planche Mackarness (1888)
"TWIRL THE trencher. The players must sit in a circle; they must have a small
round thing of some sort to twirl, to represent a trencher. ..."
5. A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuni Culture Growth by Frank Hamilton Cushing (1886)
"Food trencher of wicker-work. enough, the inside of the latter seems not at first
... Food trencher of wicker-work inverted as used in forming food-bowls of ..."
6. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"3. Food, pleasures of the table. Trice, к. Moment, instant, second, jiffy,
twinkling, twinkling of an eye. trencher-шал, n. Eater, feeder. ..."
7. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the by Washington Irving, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1898)
"... of the Buffalo— Hunters' Feast- trencher Heroes — Bullying of an Absent Foe —
The Damp Comrade — The Indian Spy — Meeting with Hodgkiss — His Adventures ..."
8. Dining and Its Amenities by John William Severin Gouley (1907)
"VIII trencher-FRIENDS "This honest friend, that you so much admire, No better is
than a mere trencher squire." trencher-friends are commonly styled ..."
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