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trencherful

trencherful noun: enough to fill a trencher; a plateful of food.

Noun

trencherful (plural trencherfuls or trenchersful)

  1. Enough to fill a trencher; a plateful of food.
    • [W]e went to the Sun tavern in expectation of a dinner, where we had sent us only two trenchers-full of meat, at which we were very merry[…]1660 February 25 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “February 16th, 1659–1660”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume...
    • The stout beggar seemed to devour the good cheer with amazing relish, and one trencherful after another disappeared with a rapidity which appeared extraordinary to those who sat around.1849, William Henry Short, De Merley: a legend of the Wansbeck in the olden time, page 198

Forms of trencherful

pluraltrencherfuls
pluraltrenchersful

Origin of trencherful

From trencher + -ful.

Questions about trencherful

What does trencherful mean?
Trencherful means enough to fill a trencher; a plateful of food.
What part of speech is trencherful?
Trencherful is a noun.
What is the plural of trencherful?
The plural of trencherful is trencherfuls.

Words near trencherful in the dictionary

  1. trencher mate
  2. trencher mates
  3. trencher-fed
  4. trencher-man
  5. trencher-men
  6. trencherful
  7. trencherfuls
  8. trenchering
  9. trencherlike
  10. trenchermaker
  11. trenchermakers

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