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trencheator

trencheator [cf. AN trencher], one who carves meat at table. 1439 fideli militi nostro Johanni Beauchamp uni ~eatorum nostrorum Cl 289 m. 18; 1486 capitalem ~iatorem CalPat 59; 1497 J. de C. scutifer, ~iator, marescallus hospitiorum ejusdem archiducis Foed. XII 655; 1553 damus Roberto Dudley militi ‥ privatae camerae nostrae, officium capitalis ~iatoris. ‥ ipsum ‥ capitalem ~eatorem nostrum facimus Ib. XV 327.

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