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Webster 1913 Edition
Voider
Void′er
,Noun.
1.
One who, or that which, voids, [GREEK]mpties, vacates, or annuls.
2.
A tray, or basket, formerly used to receive or convey that which is voided or cleared away from a given place; especially, one for carrying off the remains of a meal, as fragments of food; sometimes, a basket for containing household articles, as clothes, etc.
Piers Plowman laid the cloth, and Simplicity brought in the
voider
. Decker.
The cloth whereon the earl dined was taken away, and the
voider
, wherein the plate was usually put, was set upon the cupboard’s head. Hist. of Richard Hainam.
3.
A servant whose business is to void, or clear away, a table after a meal.
[R.]
Decker.
4.
(Her.)
One of the ordinaries, much like the flanch, but less rounded and therefore smaller.
Webster 1828 Edition
Voider
VOID'ER
, n.1.
A basket in which broken meat is carried from the table.2.
One who evacuates.3.
One who nullifies.4.
In heraldry, one of the ordinaries, whose figure is much like that of the flanch or flasque.5.
In agriculture, a provincial name of a kind of shallow basket of open work.Definition 2024
voider
voider
English
Noun
voider (plural voiders)
- One who, or that which, voids, empties, vacates, or annuls.
- A tray or basket formerly used to receive or convey that which is voided or cleared away from a given place; especially, one for carrying off the remains of a meal, as fragments of food; sometimes, a basket for containing household articles, as clothes, etc.
- Decker
- Piers Plowman laid the cloth, and Simplicity brought in the voider.
- History of Richard Hainam
- The cloth whereon the earl dined was taken away, and the voider, wherein the plate was usually put, was set upon the cupboard's head.
- Decker
- (rare) A servant whose business is to void, or clear away, a table after a meal.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Decker to this entry?)