trencher
tren cher
- n someone who digs trenches
- n a wooden board or platter on which food is served or carved
- Before Wedgwood, those Englishmen who could not eat off gold plates ate off pewter and wooden trenchers.
- The meals alone involved prodigious waste: one massive, carved, 14-foot-long wooden trencher held 120 gallons of fish stew.
- As offerings to less trencher-minded spirits, they burn paper imitations of currency and clothes.