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The trencher was a Tudor plate. The small dip on one side was to hold salt.
Poorer people often used 3 or 4 day old bread cut into slices as trenchers, while richer people sometimes used bread trenchers on top of the wooden ones. Added: 14th Feb 2008 by Mark Curteis
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Subjects: English, History
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