different between trencher vs drencher

English

Etymology

From Middle English trenchour, from Anglo-Norman trenchour and Old Northern French trencheor (French tranchoir), from trenchier (“to cut, to carve”). See trench (verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??nt??(?)/
• Rhymes: -?nt??(?)

Noun

trencher (plural trenchers)

1. (archaic) A long plate on which food is served and/or cut.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2

     No more dams I'll make for fish;

     Nor fetch in firing

     At requiring,

     Nor scrape trenchering, nor wash dish;

     'Ban 'Ban, Ca—Caliban,

     Has a new master—Get a new man.

   • Mrs Partridge, upon this, immediately fell into a fury, and discharged the trencher on which she was eating, at the head of poor Jenny […]

2. One who trenches; especially, one who cuts or digs ditches.
3. A machine for digging trenches.

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Further reading

• Trencher (tableware) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Trencher (machine) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• retrench

Old French

Verb

trencher

1. Alternative form of trenchier

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. In the present tense an extra supporting e is needed in the first-person singular indicative and throughout the singular subjunctive, and the third-person singular subjunctive ending -t is lost. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

English

Etymology

From Middle English *drencher (found in the Surname Drencher), equivalent to drench +? -er.

Noun

drencher (plural drenchers)

1. One who, or that which, drenches.
2. A fire prevention device, like a sprinkler but ejecting a denser curtain of water and sometimes mounted on the outside of a building to prevent the spread of fire from those nearby.
   • 2008, John Ridley, John Channing, Safety at Work (page 675)

     A second system of conventional dry sprinkler heads is interspersed with the drencher heads.

   • 1950, Great Britain. Ministry of Public Building and Works, Post-war Building Studies (issues 28-31, page 14)

     The drencher supply should also be separate from the sprinkler supply.