voiders

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...
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
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]...