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trenchers

trenchers is the plural of trencher.

Meaning of trencher

Noun

trencher (plural trenchers)

  1. (archaic, historical) A plate on which food is served or cut.
    • Mrs Partridge, upon this, immediately fell into a fury, and discharged the trencher on which she was eating, at the head of poor Jenny […]1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC
  2. Someone who trenches; especially, one who cuts or digs ditches.
  3. A machine for digging trenches.
    • The milling action of the bucket line enables the trencher to cut through difficult materials, such as stone rubble and brick filling, and to leave a good trench with clean side walls.1956 January, “New Permanent Way Equipment on British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 57

Questions about trenchers

What is trenchers the plural of?
Trenchers is the plural of trencher.

Words near trenchers in the dictionary

  1. trenchermaker
  2. trenchermakers
  3. trencherman
  4. trenchermanship
  5. trenchermen
  6. trenchers
  7. trenchersful
  8. trencherwoman
  9. trencherwomen
  10. trenches
  11. trenchesful

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