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English
Etymology
From trencher + -ful.
Noun
trencherful (plural trencherfuls or trenchersful)
- Enough to fill a trencher; a plateful of food.
1660 February 26 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “February 16th, 1659–1660”, in Henry B Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys , volume I, London: George Bell & Sons ; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC: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 […]
1849, William Henry Short, De Merley: a legend of the Wansbeck in the olden time, page 198: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.