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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Voider \Void"er\, n.
1. One who or that which voids, ?mpties, vacates, or
annuls.
2. A tray, or basket, formerly used to receive or convey that
which is voided or cleared away from a given place
especially, one for carrying off the remains of a meal, as
fragments of food; sometimes a basket for containing
household articles, as clothes, etc
Piers Plowman laid the cloth, and Simplicity brought
in the voider. --Decker.
The cloth whereon the earl dined was taken away and
the voider, wherein the plate was usually put was
set upon the cupboard's head. --Hist. of
Richard
Hainam
3. A servant whose business is to void, or clear away a
table after a meal. [R.] --Decker.
4. (Her.) One of the ordinaries, much like the flanch, but
less rounded and therefore smaller.
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