Etymology
Origin of voider
Example Sentences
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"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."
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Don’t put meat off your plate into the dish, but into a voider.
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One other appurtenance of a dining-room is found in all early inventories—a voider.
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The voider was a deep wicker, wooden, or metal basket.
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In the voider the lines are still wider apart; this ordinary occupies nearly the whole of the field: it may be charged.
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