He is a very valiant trencher-man. [ William Shakespeare ]

A little and good fills the trencher. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

You make a muck-hill on my trencher, quoth the bride. [ Proverb ]

He that waits upon another's trencher makes many a little dinner. [ Proverb ]

There is a hand that has no heart in it, there is a claw or paw, a flipper or fin, a bit of wet cloth to take hold of, a piece of unbaked dough on the cook's trencher, a cold clammy thing we recoil from, or greedy clutch with the heat of sin, which we drop as a burning coal. What a scale from the talon to the horn of plenty, is this human palmleaf! Sometimes it is what a knifeshaped, thin-bladed tool we dare not grasp, or like a poisonous thing we shake off, or unclean member, which, white as it may look, we feel polluted by! [ C. A. Bartol ]