trencher

Example Sentences

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More soup gets served, Sister’s Stew, “in a trencher hollowed out of a stale loaf.”

From Slate • Jul. 5, 2017

In this opener, we're treated to a look at traditional British loaves, from the humble white bloomer to the relatively lavish lamb-leg trencher.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2013

The meals alone involved prodigious waste: one massive, carved, 14-foot-long wooden trencher held 120 gallons of fish stew.

From Time Magazine Archive

This time it was the constable’s wife, with a wooden trencher of mush.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

Brienne shook her head, staring down at her trencher as if to find some answer in the gravy.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin