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Voider [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A basket in which broken meat is carried from the table.

2. One who evacuates.

3. One who nullifies.

4. In heraldry, one of the ordinaries, whose figure is much like that of the flanch or flasque.

5. In agriculture, a provincial name of a kind of shallow basket of open work.

Voider [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

3. A servant whose business is to void, or clear away, a table after a meal.

4. One of the ordinaries, much like the flanch, but less rounded and therefore smaller.