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Trencher Meaning & Definition
Trencher Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Trencher?

[n] a wooden board or platter on which food is served or carved
[n] someone who digs trenches

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See Also | board | digger

Trencher In Webster's Dictionary

\Trench"er\, n. [OE. trencheoir, F. tranchoir, fr. trancher to cut, carve. See {Trench}, v. t.] 1. One who trenches; esp., 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. [R.] --L'Estrange. {Trencher friend}, one who frequents the tables of others; a sponger. {Trencher mate}, a table companion; a parasite; a trencher fly. --Hooker.

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