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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trencher-man \Trench"er-man\, noun; pl. {Trencher-men}.
1. A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer. --Shak.
2. A cook. [Obs.]
The skillfulest trencher-men of Media. --Sir P. Sidney.
3. A table companion; a trencher mate. --Thackeray.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
trencherman
noun: a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess [syn: {glutton}, {gourmand}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "trencherman": Brillat-Savarin, Lucullus, belly-god, board-and-roomer, boarder, bon vivant, cannibal, carnivore, connoisseur of food, consumer, cormorant, diner, diner-out, eater, eater-out, epicure, feeder, flesh-eater, fruitarian, gastronome, glutton, gorger, gormand, gormandizer, gourmand, gourmandizer, gourmet, grain-eater, graminivore, granivore, greedy eater, greedygut, greedyguts, guttler, herbivore, high liver, hog, hungry mouth, husky eater, lactovegetarian, luncher, man-eater, meat-eater, mouth, omnivore, omophagist, pantophagist, phytophage, picnicker, pig, plant-eater, predacean, trencherwoman, vegetarian
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