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trencher-man
/ˈtɹɛnt͡ʃə(ɹ)mən/
noun 3
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2ADJ.
famous, valiant
TRENCHER-MAN + NOUN
hath
Definitions
noun
1
A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer.
Shakespeare's Falstaff is a famous trencher-man.
BEATRICE. You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it; he is a very valiant trencher-man; he hath an excellent stomach.
2
A cook.
The skilfullest trencher-men of Media.
3
A table companion; a tablemate.
Mr. Wagg, the celebrated wit, and a led captain and trencher-man of my Lord Steyne, was caused by the ladies to charge her; and the worthy fellow, leering at his patronesses, and giving them a wink, as much as to say, "Now look out for sport,"
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Shakespeare's Falstaff is a famous trencher-man.
Wiktionary02
BEATRICE. You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it; he is a very valiant trencher-man; he hath an excellent stomach.
Wiktionary03
"Holy Clerk," said the stranger, after the first cup was thus swallowed, "I cannot but marvel that a man possessed of such thews and sinews as thine, and who therewithal shows the talent of so goodly
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