trencherful

plural trencherfuls · plural trenchersful

1. Enough to fill a trencher; a plateful of food.

   [W]e went to the Sun tavern in expectation of a dinner, where we had sent us only two trenchers-full of meat, at which we were very merry[…]

   1660 February 25 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “February 16th, 1659–1660”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume I, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC

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   The stout beggar seemed to devour the good cheer with amazing relish, and one trencherful after another disappeared with a rapidity which appeared extraordinary to those who sat around.

   1849, William Henry Short, De Merley: a legend of the Wansbeck in the olden time, page 198