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Meaning of VOIDER

Pronunciation:  'voydur

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a hamper that holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet clothes to be dried
  2. [n]  a piece of chain mail covering a place unprotected by armor plate
  3. [n]  a person who defecates
  4. [n]  an official who can invalidate or nullify; "my bank check was voided and I wanted to know who the invalidator was"
 
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 Synonyms: clothes basket, clothes hamper, defecator, gusset, invalidator, laundry basket, nullifier, shitter
 
 See Also: body armor, body armour, cataphract, chain armor, chain armour, chain mail, coat of mail, functionary, hamper, human, individual, mail, mortal, official, person, ring armor, ring armour, ring mail, somebody, someone, soul, suit of armor, suit of armour

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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.
 

 

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