Etymology
Origin of voider
Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at void, -er 1
Example Sentences
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Don’t put meat off your plate into the dish, but into a voider.
From Early English Meals and Manners by Furnivall, Frederick James
Gentlemen, you that can play at noddy, or rather play upon noddies—you that can set up a jest at primero instead of a rest, laugh at the prologue, that was taken away in a voider.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
Being set down, she casts her face into a platform, which dureth the meal, and is taken away with the voider.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
The functions of a voider were somewhat those of a crumb-tray.
From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse
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."
From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac
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