voider : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: voider	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for voider
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
voider n an official who can invalidate or nullify; "my bank check was voided and I wanted to know who the invalidator was" Synonym(s): invalidator, voider, nullifier a person who defecates Synonym(s): defecator, voider, shitter a piece of chain mail covering a place unprotected by armor plate Synonym(s): voider, gusset a hamper that holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet clothes to be dried Synonym(s): clothes hamper, laundry basket, clothes basket, voider
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Voider \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.] --Decker. 4. (Her.) One of the ordinaries, much like the flanch, but less rounded and therefore smaller.