voider

Noun

voider (plural voiders)

1. One who, or that which, voids, empties, 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.
   • Peirs ploughman layd the cloth, and Simplicity brought in the voyder.1609, Thomas Dekker, “The Guls Horne-booke: […]: The Old World, & the New Weighed Together: The Tailors of Those Times, and These Compared: The Apparell, and Dyet of Our First Fathers”, in Alexander...
   • 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.1656, History of Richard Hainam
3. (historical) A contrivance in armour for covering an unprotected part of the body; a gousset.
   • […] amongst the stock of a Southwark armour-dealer in 1454 and worn-out haubergeons 'of westwale' at the Tower in 1455 were recycled into sleeves and voiders., Boydell & Brewer, page 173
   • The plate defences for the legs and the under garment with chain mail voiders attached, are in place. The rest of the armour and two of his weapons are seen on the trestle table.1904, The Archaeological Journal, page 307
4. (historical, rare) A servant whose business is to void, or clear away, a table after a meal.
   • The voider hauing cléered the table, Cardes & Dice (for the laſt Meſſe) are ſerued vp to the boord: […]1609, Thomas Dekker, “Lanthorne and Candle-light. Or, The Bell-man’s Second Nights-walke. […] The Second Edition, […]: Gul-groping. How Gentlemen are Cheated at Ordinaries.”, in Alexander B[alloch]...