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单词 scrape-trencher
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scrape-trenchern.

Etymology: < scrape v. + trencher n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈscrape-trencher.
Obsolete exc. Historical.
A servant whose office was to scrape the trenchers after use. (In Oxford colleges the term was in regular use till the 18th cent.)
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1603 H. Crosse Vertues Common-wealth sig. L1 Euery slouenly seruingman, and greasie scrape-trencher will exceede the boundes of his calling.
1607 G. Wilkins Miseries Inforst Mariage i. A 2 But stay, here is a Scrape-trencher ariued.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 199/1 The Common Servants to each Hall..are..the Porter, Scrape Trencher, Cook, and his under Servants.
1691 Case of Exeter-Coll. 3 Ferdinand Smith, Scrape-trencher of the Colledge.
a1777 S. Foote Nabob (1778) iii. 59 Mr. Scrape-trencher, let's have no more of your jaw!
1862 J. Grant Capt. of Guard i. 5 A train of cut-throats, swashbucklers, and scrape-trenchers.
attributive.1857 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. II. 496 The King should present himself wholly disarmed, not having even a scrape-trencher blade or whittle-dagger.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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