trenchering

English

Noun

trenchering (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Trenchers; plates.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     No more dams I'll make for fish;
     Nor fetch in firing
     At requiring,
     Nor scrape trenchering, nor wash dish;
     'Ban 'Ban, Ca—Caliban,
     Has a new master—Get a new man.