voider

Noun

WordNet 3.0

Noun (4)

  1. an official who can invalidate or nullify“my bank check was voided and I wanted to know who the invalidator was”Synonyms: invalidatornullifier
  2. a person who defecatesSynonyms: defecatorshitter
  3. a piece of chain mail covering a place unprotected by armor plateSynonyms: gusset
  4. a hamper that holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet clothes to be driedSynonyms: clothes hamperlaundry basketclothes basket
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Voider \Void"er\, n.

1.One who, or that which, voids, ?mpties, vacates, or annuls. [1913 Webster]

2.A tray, or basket, formerly used to receive or convey that which is voided or cleared away from a given place; especially, one for carrying off the remains of a meal, as fragments of food; sometimes, a basket for containing household articles, as clothes, etc. [1913 Webster]

Piers Plowman laid the cloth, and Simplicity brought in the voider.— Decker.[1913 Webster]
The cloth whereon the earl dined was taken away, and the voider, wherein the plate was usually put, was set upon the cupboard's head.— Hist. of Richard Hainam.[1913 Webster]

3.A servant whose business is to void, or clear away, a table after a meal. [R.] --Decker. [1913 Webster]

4.(Her.) One of the ordinaries, much like the flanch, but less rounded and therefore smaller. [1913 Webster]

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