Other forms: trenchers
A trencher is a wooden board or plate for serving food. Carve on the trencher, a wooden trencher, share a trencher.
The earliest ones were slabs of stale bread that soaked up the juices and were eaten last or given away. A trencherman, meaning a hearty eater, is the word that survives from all this.
1nountrencherA wooden board or plate for serving food.
“In the medieval hall, meat was served on wooden trenchers.”
trencher is a plate.
Anglo-Norman trenchour comes from trenchier, to cut, the root of trench.
fro-nor
trencheor
Anglo-Norman
trenchour
Middle English
trenchour
English, today
trencher
Built from
From Middle English trenchour, from Anglo-Norman trenchour and fro-nor trencheor (French tranchoir), from trenchier (“to cut, to carve”). See trench (verb).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA