trenchorum

trenchorum [AN, ME trenchour] 1 trencher, wooden board or slice of bread used for cutting on or as a plate. preter panem pro scinditoriis, id est ~uris Cust. Cant. I160; 1407 pro ferculis xxxvij panes, ~eris iiij Househ. Ac. 269. 2 (understood as): a path cut or cleared through forest. b trench, ditch, channel. Cf. trenchum. a 1282 usque ad ~eram illam que est inter Bleytheswyke et boscum de Flexleye TR Forest Proc. 31 m. 12. b 1330 quieti de ‥ fossatorum et ~erarum PQW 583a.

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