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Definition: Trencher |
TrencherNoun1. Someone who digs trenches. 2. A wooden board or platter on which food is served or carved. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "trencher" was first used: sometime around 1308. (references) |
Etymology: Trencher \Trench"er\, noun. [from Old English expression trencheoir, French tranchoir, from trancher to cut, carve. See Trench, transitive verb]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A self-propelled machine, usually on crawler tracks, specialized for digging trenches. It is operated by a bucket ladder excavator or by a chain of buckets on a wheel. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | In a planting machine, a metal shoe behind the share, which makes the trench for the plant roots. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A wooden platter on which meat is sliced. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Layer | Noun: layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment; table, tablet; dess; flagstone; board, plank; trencher, platter. |
Receptacle | Plate, platter, dish, trencher, calabash, porringer, potager, saucer, pan, crucible; glassware, tableware; vitrics. |
Sociality | Verb: be sociable; Adjective: know; be acquainted; Adjective: associate with, sort with, keep company with, walk hand in hand with; eat off the same trencher, club together, consort, bear one company, join; make acquaintance with; (friendship); make advances, fraternize, embrace. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Trencher |
| English words defined with "trencher": Trencher mate, Trencher-man. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "trencher": KNIGHT OF THE TRENCHER ♦ TRENCHER CAP. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Flail Trencher near Table RockBoise FrontFour Rivers Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: Unknown. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I have seen him do the summerset several times together upon a trencher fixed on the rope, which is no thicker than a common packthread in England. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Trencher" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Trencher" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "trencher": Trencher cap ♦ Trencher fly ♦ Trencher friend ♦ Trencher mate. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "trencher": Trencher-man, Trencher-men. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "trencher"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pjatancë druri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | копач на окопи, копаня, машина за копаене на ровове, машина за копаене на траншеи, машина за копаене на окопи, дъска за рязане на хляб. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zákopník (engineer, pioneer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | rendegraver (ditch-digger, ditcher, gripper, gutter plough, trench excavator), rendegravemaskine (ditcher, trench excavator, trenching machine), grøftegraver (ditch digger, ditcher, ditching machine, trench cutting machine, trencher excavator, trenching machine), grøftegravemaskiner (ditch digger, ditcher, ditching machine, trench cutting machine, trencher excavator, trenching machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | sleuvengraafmachine (ditch-digger, trench excavator), sleufgraver (ditcher, trench excavator), sleufgraafschop (trench excavator), greppelgraver (ditch digger, ditcher, ditching machine, trench cutting machine, trencher excavator, trenching machine), greppelfrees (ditch digger, ditcher, ditching machine, trench cutting machine, trencher excavator, trenching machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ojankaivukone (ditcher, trench excavator, trenching machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tranchoir, trancheuse (trench cutting machine, trench excavator, trencher excavator, trenching machine), soc planteur, machine creuser les tranchées (trench cutting machine, trencher excavator, trenching machine), machine creuser les fossés (trench cutting machine, trencher excavator, trenching machine), fossoyeuse (trench cutting machine, trencher excavator, trenching machine), excavateur de tranchées (trench cutting machine, trench excavator, trencher excavator, trenching machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Trencher (ditch digger, ditcher, ditching machine, trench cutting machine, trencher excavator, trenching machine), Rillenziehvorrichtung, Grabenziehmaschine (ditch digger, ditcher, ditching machine, trench cutting machine, trencher excavator, trenching machine), Grabenzieher (ditch digger, ditcher, ditching machine, trench cutting machine, trencher excavator, trenching machine), Grabenbagger (ditch digger, ditch-digger, ditcher, ditching machine, trench cutting machine, trench excavator, trencher excavator, trenching machine), Grabenaushubmaschine (ditcher, trench excavator, trenching machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γαβάθα (bowl, porringer, ramekin), ξυλοπιατέλα, μηχανή εκσκαφής χανδάκων (ditch digger, ditcher, ditching machine, trench cutting machine, trencher excavator, trenching machine), μηχανή εκσκαφής τάφρων (ditch digger, ditcher, ditching machine, trench cutting machine, trencher excavator, trenching machine), εκσκαφέας (digger, excavator), εκσκαφεύς χανδάκων (ditcher, trench excavator, trenching machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | árokásó (ditcher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pelahap (trencher-man, wolverene, wolverine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | solcatore, scavafossi (ditch digger, ditcher, ditching machine, trench cutting machine, trencher excavator, trenching machine), escavatore per trincea (ditcher, trench excavator, trenching machine), escavatore per fossi (ditch digger, ditcher, ditching machine, trench cutting machine, trencher excavator, trenching machine), escavatore di trincee (trench excavator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | trenshoor (platter, salver, tray), tranjoor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enchertray trincho, relha de plantação, outrora (at some time, erst, erstwhile, heretofore, once, sometime, sometimes, whilom, yore), escavadora de trincheiras (ditcher, trench excavator, trenching machine), escavador de valas (ditch digger, ditcher, ditching machine, trench cutting machine, trencher excavator, trenching machine). (various references) tocã (Toque), sãpãtor (digger, ditcher, excavator, grubber, Sexton, Spader), fund de lemn. (various references) солдат (carpet knight, Joe, Joe Blow, pawn, purdue, soldier). (various references) trinnsear (plate). (various references) kopač rovova (sapper), kopač kanala, hrana (aliment, chow, cuisine, eatables, fare, food, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, pabulum, prog, provender, tommy, viands, victual, victuals), daska za sečenje. (various references) trincheradora (ditch digger, ditcher, ditching machine, trench cutting machine, trencher excavator, trenching machine), zanjadora (ditch digger, ditcher, ditching machine, trench cutting machine, trench excavator, trencher excavator, trenching machine), abrezanjas (ditch digger, ditcher, ditching machine, trench cutting machine, trencher excavator, trenching machine). (various references) skärbräde. (various references) hendek kazıcı, ekmek tahtası. (various references) người đ o mương lính đ o h o bạn đ"ng b n, bạn cùng ăn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | trenchoir. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "trencher": trencherman, trenchermen, trenchers. (additional references) | |
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"Trencher" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: frencher, Rencher, Renschler, tranche, tranchet, Treichler, Trencern, trenche, trenchier, trenkie, Trenkler, trochar, Tronchet, Truchart, trunker. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "trencher" (pronounced tre"nkher) |
| 4 | -e" n kh er | adventure, bencher, Clencher, debenture, denture, indenture, misadventure, quencher, venture. |
| 3 | -n kh er | clincher, cruncher, launcher, licensure, Pincher, rancher. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: retrench. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-n-r-r-t" | |
-2 letters: center, centre, etcher, nether, recent, renter, tenrec, thence, trench. | |
-3 letters: cheer, chert, enter, erect, ether, hence, rente, retch, tench, terce, terne, there, three, treen. | |
-4 letters: cent, cere, cete, eche, erne, etch, hent, here, hern, rent, rete, teen, tern, thee, then, tree. | |
-5 letters: cee, ere, ern, err, eth, hen, her, het, nee, net, nth, rec. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-n-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: trenchers. | |
+2 letters: archentera, rechristen, retrenched, retrenches. | |
+3 letters: archenteron, cherrystone, chronometer, furtherance, orthocenter, rechristens, retrenching, trencherman, trenchermen, unchartered. | |
+4 letters: archenterons, cherrystones, chromocenter, chronometers, furtherances, inheritrices, interchanger, orthocenters, rechartering, rechristened, retrenchment. | |
+5 letters: chromocenters, chronometries, countercharge, counterthreat, interchangers, precentorship, rapprochement, rechristening, retrenchments, terpsichorean, thenceforward, thermonuclear. | |
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