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Webster 1913 Edition
Trencher
1.
One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches.
2.
A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use.
3.
The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food.
It could be no ordinary declension of nature that could bring some men, after an ingenuous education, to place their “summum bonum” upon their
trenchers
. South.
Trencher cap
, the cap worn by studens at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, having a stiff, flat, square appendage at top. A similar cap used in the United States is called
– Oxford cap
, mortar board
, etc. Trencher fly
, a person who haunts the tables of others; a parasite.
[R.]
L’Estrange.
– Trencher friend
, one who frequents the tables of others; a sponger.
– Trencher mate
, a table companion; a parasite; a trencher fly.
Hooker.
Webster 1828 Edition
Trencher
TRENCH'ER
,Noun.
1.
The table.2.
Food; pleasures of the table. It would be no ordinary declension that would bring some men to place their summum bonum upon their trenchers.
Definition 2024
trencher
trencher
English
Noun
trencher (plural trenchers)
- (archaic) A long plate on which food is served and/or cut.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
- One who trenches; especially, one who cuts or digs ditches.
- A machine for digging trenches.
Derived terms
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Translations
(archaic) a long plate on which food is served
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a machine for digging trenches
Anagrams
Old French
Verb
trencher
- Alternative form of trenchier
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. In the present tense an extra supporting e is needed in the first-person singular indicative and throughout the singular subjunctive, and the third-person singular subjunctive ending -t is lost. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of trencher (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | trencher | avoir trenché | |||||
| gerund | en trenchant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | trenchant | ||||||
| past participle | trenché | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | trenche | trenches | trenche | trenchons | trenchez | trenchent |
| imperfect | trenchoie, trencheie, trenchoe, trencheve | trenchoies, trencheies, trenchoes, trencheves | trenchoit, trencheit, trenchot, trencheve | trenchiiens, trenchiens | trenchiiez, trenchiez | trenchoient, trencheient, trenchoent, trenchevent | |
| preterite | trenchai | trenchas | trencha | trenchames | trenchastes | trencherent | |
| future | trencherai | trencheras | trenchera | trencherons | trencheroiz, trenchereiz, trencherez | trencheront | |
| conditional | trencheroie, trenchereie | trencheroies, trenchereies | trencheroit, trenchereit | trencheriiens, trencheriens | trencheriiez, trencheriez | trencheroient, trenchereient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | trenche | trenches | trenche | trenchons | trenchez | trenchent |
| imperfect | trenchasse | trenchasses | trenchast | trenchissons, trenchissiens | trenchissoiz, trenchissez, trenchissiez | trenchassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | trenche | — | trenchons | trenchez | — | ||