Definitions for trencher

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trencher trench·er

Spelling: [tren-cher]

IPA: /ˈtrɛn tʃər/

Trencher is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 146 anagrams from letters in trencher (ceehnrrt).

Definitions for trencher

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.

Origin of trencher

1275-1325; Middle English trenchour something to cut with or on Anglo-French; Middle French trencheoir. See trench, -ory²

Examples for trencher

trencher, looking slantwise to the south, could see them plainly.

Tom was up now, saw it was the master, and touched his trencher.

The trencher on his tressel was empty; and he had not wherewithal to re-fill it.

If you're eating for honour, you mustn't leave anything on the trencher.'

Moreover, this person was staring directly in trencher's direction.

For the moment it was this hundredth man trencher would have to fear.

Now the tall man, the one conspicuously dressed, had been trencher.

One of the most important articles for setting the table was the trencher.

It was trencher's impression that the man had gone on by without halting.

A knife or fork with horizontal handles does not sit naturally in the curved structure of a trencher or a pottage bowl.