trenchers in English

noun
1
a wooden plate or platter for food.
Then one evening dull, as Stien stood by the large wash bin in the inn scrubbing food from used trenchers , a group of six men Stien had never seen before entered through the thick, wooden door.
2
a machine or attachment used in digging trenches.
The array was as distinctive as varied - right from earthquake detectors, energy efficient stoves, to trenchers , water-harvesting machines, and corn-roasters.

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2. In medieval cuisine, slices of stale bread, called trenchers, were used instead of plates.

3. Since 1971, LASER grade-control systems have improved the accuracy and speed of trenchers and drain-laying plows.

4. During the Middle Ages in Europe, thick slabs of coarse and usually stale bread, called "trenchers", were used as plates.

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