If that be all, we will not disagree: A clean trencher and a napkin you shall have presently.

The Old Mother says,'Give me your ticket, my dear, and I'll feed you with my gold spoon off these beautiful old wooden trenchers.

Theis two strange hungry Knights (Will) make the leanest trenchers that ever I waited on.

Costly plate was gradually introduced, as well as linen and utensils, for the table; but the plate may be conjectured to have been an outcome from the primitive trencher, a large slice of bread on which meat was laid for the occupants of the high table, and which was cast aside after use.