Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which voids or annuls; one who vacates or empties.
- noun Formerly, a tray or basket for carrying away utensils, dishes, etc., no longer required; especially, a tray or basket in which broken meat was carried from the table.
- noun A clothes-basket.
- noun A means of avoiding; in the following quotation, a screen from the heat of the sun; an arbor.
- noun In heraldry, same as
flasque . - noun In medieval armor, a contrivance for covering any part, of the body which the plate-armor left exposed, as at the joints.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, voids, �mpties, vacates, or annuls.
- noun 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.
- noun rare A servant whose business is to void, or clear away, a table after a meal.
- noun (Her.) One of the ordinaries, much like the flanch, but less rounded and therefore smaller.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
voids , empties, vacates, orannuls .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an official who can invalidate or nullify
- noun a hamper that holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet clothes to be dried
- noun a person who defecates
- noun a piece of chain mail covering a place unprotected by armor plate
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Examples
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The voider was a deep wicker, wooden, or metal basket.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Make Magazine has a special Make-branded "warranty-voider" Leatherman tool, along with a copy of the Maker's Bill of Rights:
Boing Boing: November 26, 2006 - December 2, 2006 Archives 2006
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The functions of a voider were somewhat those of a crumb-tray.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Then a voider was passed around the table near the close of the dinner, and into it the persons at the table placed their trenchers, napkins, and the crumbs from the table.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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One other appurtenance of a dining-room is found in all early inventories -- a voider.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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The voider was still sometimes called the _alms-basket_, and had its charitable uses in great and rich men's houses: one of which was to supply those confined in gaols for debt, and such prisoners as had no means to purchase any food.
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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 Isaac Disraeli 1807
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His gift was an Indian tray or voider full of silver, upon which was a carved silver dish full of gold.
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Rational Review 2009
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The rental of the land he valued at 25 millions, but deducing 5 millions for incomes under 60L and allowing for tliofe voider
The Monthly magazine 1796
ruzuzu commented on the word voider
Another heraldry word.
September 1, 2011