So people still ate off their wooden trenchers, and as a wooden trencher is about the best substance I know for holding germs and ferments, people died. From Wordnik.com. [Canada's Relations With China] Reference
For plates they used what was called a trencher made of wood or pewter. From Wordnik.com. [History of American Women] Reference
From men in trencher caps to trencher scholars. From Wordnik.com. [Ode to the Great Unknown] Reference
He was not to put too much on his trencher at once. From Wordnik.com. [Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine] Reference
The barbarian nodded, not looking up from his trencher. From Wordnik.com. [Night Arrant]
Thou pratest, and pratest; serve with thy trencher, hence!. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedy of Coriolanus] Reference
She sat on the side of the bed, with the cup and trencher by her. From Wordnik.com. [The Bull From The Sea]
Lorenzo set the trencher and its burden of meat down before Daoud. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Will your father thank me for putting this matter on his trencher?. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Besides, they have enough on their trencher with the King in captivity. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Feed, you slave; thou mayst think thyself happy to be fed from my trencher. From Wordnik.com. [The First Part of Tamburlaine the Great] Reference
Her portion of food on the trencher was still untouched and she was as pale as whey. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Marguerite spoke, stopped in midair, and he slowly put the meat back on his trencher. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
The wife minced a bit of meat, then crumbled some bread on a trencher, and placed it before me. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
The bread soaks up the grease and the suety 'trencher' makes the neighborhood birds very happy. ". From Wordnik.com. [Serious Eats] Reference
The fifteenth century vocabulary notices the salt-cellar, the spoon, the trencher, and the table-cloth. From Wordnik.com. [Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine] Reference
He has some faculty in mangling of a rabbit, and the distribution of his morsel to a neighbour's trencher. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Or plain, as Patricius holds, which Austin, Lactamius, and some others, held of old as round as a trencher. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
The serving girl scooped meat onto the barbarian's trencher, and the gravy started to sink into the bread. From Wordnik.com. [Odyssey]
Klion Meinora turned his attention to the trencher before him for a moment, then looked toward his companion again. From Wordnik.com. [Millennium] Reference
In its place was a great trencher of steaming hot collops of meat, and toasted bread, with hot milk in great plenty. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
The dog, Scipio, had abandoned the trencher and risen to his feet, and he, too, was advancing on Daoud, fangs bared. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
He put away his knife, handed the trencher and the fish back to the servant, and bowed his head to listen to the reading. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
A hitherto unknown variety of food covered the table, served on pewter, china, or silver, instead of the primitive trencher. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
Simon sliced the eels and put oval white slices on each person's trencher, while Prince Tristan carved and distributed the duck. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
But the other would not, and took a trencher likewise, in doing which he spoke of the two girls and remarked how comely they were. From Wordnik.com. [A Changed Man] Reference
Jurissa's words, the man returned, bearing before him a trencher covered with a cloth, which he placed at the upper end of the table. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844] Reference
His attention at the time was on his trencher, for the October air was keen, and provided a healthy young man with a voracious appetite. From Wordnik.com. [The Leper of Saint Giles]
When the fatal trencher in which each man paid down his money approached the jolly friar, his countenance seemed to be somewhat changed. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Geierstein] Reference
He was served by the old reeve, who had a habit, Joss noted, of tasting each dish before ladling out a portion onto his master's trencher. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
“I am a warrior-a household trooper of Lord Dzenko of Roshchak-as mighty at the flowing bowl and the steaming trencher as I am on the field of battle.”. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
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