Void·er n.
1. One who, or that which, voids, ░mpties, vacates, or annuls.
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.
Piers Plowman laid the cloth, and Simplicity brought in the voider. --Decker.
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.
3. A servant whose business is to void, or clear away, a table after a meal. [R.]
4. Her. One of the ordinaries, much like the flanch, but less rounded and therefore smaller.
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voider
n 1: an official who can invalidate or nullify; "my bank check
was voided and I wanted to know who the invalidator was"
[syn: invalidator, nullifier]
2: a person who defecates [syn: defecator, shitter]
3: a piece of chain mail covering a place unprotected by armor
plate [syn: gusset]
4: a hamper that holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet
clothes to be dried [syn: clothes hamper, laundry
basket, clothes basket]