trencher

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A plate on which food is served or cut. archaic,historical
    — Mrs Partridge, upon this, immediately fell into a fury, and discharged the trencher on which she was eating, at the head of poor Jenny […]
  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.

词形变化

trenchers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
fruit-trencher lick-trencher spin the trencher trencher cap trencher-fed trencher fly trencher friend trencherful trencherlike trenchermaker trencher-man trencherman trencher mate trencherwoman

词源

From Middle English trenchour, from Anglo-Norman trenchour and Old Northern French trencheor (French tranchoir), from trenchier (“to cut, to carve”). See trench (verb).
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