voider

1) Now a wicker-work clothes basket but formerly a wooden or metal basket or tray used for removing or ‘voiding’ dirty dishes or food from the table after a meal.

1548 stuff pertening to the buttrye ther ... as ... a great voyder, Denton, Lancashire

1571 21 pewter dublers, 3 voiders and 3 sawtes Ł1 0 0, Elmswell

1621 three voyders 9s, Slaidburn

1655 3 wooden voyders, Whitley.

dates 1548 1571 1621 1655

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