Meaning of trencher-man | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer.
   obsolete
2. A cook.
   obsolete
3. A table companion; a tablemate.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“"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 a trencher-man, should think of abiding by himself in this wilderness. In my judgment, you are fitter to keep a castle or a fort, eating of the fat and drinking of the strong, than to live here upon pulse and water, or even upon the charity of the keeper.”

“The skilfullest trencher-men of Media.”

The New Arcadia

“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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