trencher

A knife or fork with horizontal handles does not sit naturally in the curved structure of a trencher or a pottage bowl.

For the moment it was this hundredth man Trencher would have to fear.

"Crowd chasing a pickpocket, I imagine," said Trencher indifferently.

Trencher, looking slantwise to the south, could see them plainly.

But Trencher had quit looking that way and was looking another way.

Moreover, this person was staring directly in Trencher's direction.