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voider |
1 definition found 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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