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.

One who cuts or digs trenches; a trench-digger or -maker.

One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches.

A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use.

The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food.

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.