All savoury, it lay in a wooden trencher, surrounded by roasted hemispheres of the breadfruit.

A wooden trencher, scoured white as ivory, separates the friends, leaving them face to face.

He wore short breeches, with long stockings, and always ate his meals from a wooden trencher.

Mérian regarded him with frank appraisal as she extended a small wooden trencher with pieces of bread torn from a loaf.

I expect we won't see them until the spring. He cut into a plump roast fowl on the wooden trencher before him.

There was Thor, sleeping in a drunken stupor, his face on the gravy-covered wooden trencher, and hanging from his side, his hammer.

The girl stood in the hall, a repast that would have tempted an epicure arrayed on the wooden trencher she held in her hands.

He then brought a wooden trencher with broken bread and bite-sized chunks of cheese, and four long fire-forks, which he passed to his guests.

Old wooden trenchers may be seen in Deerfield Memorial Hall.

Pewter plates and wooden trenchers were used on the table.

The undergraduates ate off wooden trenchers and drank from pewter tankards or slipware mugs.

Pewter was the ware in common use, except among the labourer class, who had wooden trenchers, or a coarse unglazed delft.

Outside, Tinor has ranged along in her bamboo cupboard-orwhatever the place may be called- agoodlyarray of calabashes and wooden trenchers.

The Old Mother says,-Giveme your ticket, my dear, and I'll feed you with my gold spoon off these beautiful old wooden trenchers.

Doubtless, in those earliest days, the food was eaten from wooden trenchers, not plates; while from lip to lip the communal bowl went round.

Madame de Montlivet, the priest, Onanguissé, and I sat in a semicircle on the ground, and slaves served us with wooden trenchers of food.