trencherfulとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

trencherful (複数形 trencherfuls または trenchersful)

1. Enough to fill a trencher; a plateful of food.
   • 1660 February 26, Samuel Pepys; Mynors Bright, transcriber, “February 16th, 1659–1660 [Julian calendar]”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume I, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, OCLC 1016700617:

     [W]e went to the Sun tavern in expectation of a dinner, where we had sent us only two trenchers-full of meat, at which we were very merry […]

   • 1849, William Henry Short, De Merley: a legend of the Wansbeck in the olden time, page 198:

     The stout beggar seemed to devour the good cheer with amazing relish, and one trencherful after another disappeared with a rapidity which appeared extraordinary to those who sat around.