trencher

A wooden plate or platter (originally a square piece of board or slice of wood) for the table or the kitchen.

A slice of bread used as a platter to lay food upon, as thin cakes of bread still are in some countries.

That which trenchers contain; food; hence, the pleasures of the table: often used attributively.

Same as trencher-cap.

One who carves at table; also, one who carves at a side-fable for the company.