1. A person with a healthy appetite and who eats substantial amounts of food: Tom's friends called him a trencherman because he loved to go to restaurants and to consume generous dinners as if he were starving!
2. Etymology: from Latin truncare, "to lop"; from French tranchoir; from trenchier, "to cut, to carve" + Old English mann, "human being, a person, a man". © ALL rights are reserved.

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