单词 | voider |
例句 | "Enter Gustus with a voiding-knife;" and in A Woman killed with Kindness, "Enter three or four serving men, one with a voider and wooden knife to take away." Notes and Queries, Number 204, September 24, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Don’t put meat off your plate into the dish, but into a voider. Early English Meals and Manners The functions of a voider were somewhat those of a crumb-tray. Customs and Fashions in Old New England The voider was a deep wicker, wooden, or metal basket. Home Life in Colonial Days In the voider the lines are still wider apart; this ordinary occupies nearly the whole of the field: it may be charged. The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science To purify their tables, the servant bore a long wooden "voiding-knife," by which he scraped the fragments from the table into a basket, called "a voider." Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions His gift was an Indian tray or voider full of silver, upon which was a carved silver dish full of gold. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time One other appurtenance of a dining-room is found in all early inventories—a voider. Customs and Fashions in Old New England Time's voider, subsizer to the worms, in whom death, who formerly devoured our ancestors, now chews the cud. Character Writings of the 17th Century But soft, here comes a voider for us: and I see, do what I can, as long as the world lasts, there will be cuckolds in it. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 A voider for the Nonce; I wrong the Devil should I pick the Bones. Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry Being set down, she casts her face into a platform, which dureth the meal, and is taken away with the voider. Character Writings of the 17th Century |
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