Voider

Quick meaning: Voider is a noun meaning One who, or that which, voids, empties, vacates, or annuls.

Meaning

One who, or that which, voids, empties, vacates, or annuls.

More Meanings

1. 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.
2. (historical) A contrivance in armour for covering an unprotected part of the body; a gousset.
3. (historical, rare) A servant whose business is to void, or clear away, a table after a meal.

Example Sentences

Peirs ploughman layd the cloth, and Simplicity brought in the voyder.

The voider hauing cléered the table, Cardes & Dice (for the laſt Meſſe) are ſerued vp to the boord: […]

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.

[…] amongst the stock of a Southwark armour-dealer in 1454 and worn-out haubergeons 'of westwale' at the Tower in 1455 were recycled into sleeves and voiders.

Word Forms

• voiders

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nullity, inane, nullification, vacivity, devoidness, emptiness.

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