trencher
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 8
Definition of trencher
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(archaic, historical)A plate on which food is served or cut.
“Mrs Partridge, upon this, immediately fell into a fury, and discharged the trencher on which she was eating, at the head of poor Jenny […]”
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noun
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(archaic, historical)A plate on which food is served or cut.
“Mrs Partridge, upon this, immediately fell into a fury, and discharged the trencher on which she was eating, at the head of poor Jenny […]”
- Someone who trenches; especially, one who cuts or digs ditches.
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A machine for digging trenches.
“The milling action of the bucket line enables the trencher to cut through difficult materials, such as stone rubble and brick filling, and to leave a good trench with clean side walls.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English trenchour, from Anglo-Norman trenchour and Old Northern French trencheor (French tranchoir), from trenchier (“to cut, to carve”). See trench (verb).
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10 words5-letter words
14 words4-letter words
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18 words2-letter words
8 wordsHooks
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