trenchering

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noun

Trenchers; plates.

Scrabble 17
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Meanings

nountrenchering (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableTrenchers; plates.

    No more dams I'll make for fish; Nor fetch in firing At requiring, Nor scrape trenchering, nor wash dish; 'Ban 'Ban, Ca—Caliban, Has a new master—Get a new man.

    1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

retrenching
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APA

trenchering. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trenchering

MLA

“trenchering.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trenchering. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “trenchering,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trenchering.

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