trenchers
Medieval serving boards
Trenchers are flat pieces of wood or stale bread used as plates in medieval dining.
Diners would eat food placed on the trencher, then discard or give away the bread afterward.
The word survives mainly in historical contexts and in trencherman—someone with a hearty appetite, one who clears their trencher.
A trencher is also a tool for digging trenches.
Large flat serving dish
- chargersPower-restoring devices or warhorses
- platesFlat eating dishes
- bowlsDeep rounded containers
- dishesEating vessels and utensils
wooden · carved · serving · serveware · chopping · flatware · rectangular · rustic
Elaborate ceremonial meal
- banquetFormal celebratory meal
- platterLarge flat serving dish
- meadHoney-fermented alcoholic drink
- hallInterior connecting pathway
serfs · lords · ladies · knights · castle · manor · minstrels · jousting
platter
Large flat serving dish
dishes · wooden · carved · serving · serveware · chopping · flatware · rectangular · rustic · farmhouse
feast
Elaborate ceremonial meal
hall · serfs · lords · ladies · knights · castle · manor · minstrels · jousting · heraldry
loaf
Baked bread shape
stale · sop · gravy · sauce · absorbent · edible · round · servants · alms · leftover
digger
One who unearths
- excavatorMachine that digs earth
- backhoeHinged-arm excavating machine
- bulldozerBladed vehicle pushing earth
dredger · ditcher · earthmover · grader · trench · drainage · pipeline · construction · operator · bucket
- heavy equipmentexcavator, excavators, bulldozers, loader, backhoe
- historical foodmedieval feast, Roman banquet, ancient recipes, royal banquet, mead
- royal feastsfeast, banquet, feast halls, high table, head table
- AmericanaAmerican flag, Fourth of July, bald eagle, Thanksgiving, apple pie
- potterypot, pottery, clay pottery, throwing, ceramic vase
- farm equipmenttractor, tractors, plow, plows, plough
- in the trenchesEngaged in direct struggle
- ocean trenchesDeepest seafloor depressions
- deep-sea trenchesDeepest oceanic depressions
- deep trenchesExtreme submarine depressions
- oceanic trenchesDeepest seafloor depressions