_Voiding Knife_ (Vol. vi., pp. 150. 280.).--The following quotation from
Leland will throw more light on the ancient custom of _voyding_:
"In the mean time the server geueth a voyder to the carver, and he doth
_voyde_ into it the trenchers that lyeth under the _knyues_ point, and
so cleanseth the tables cleane."--_Collectanea_, vol. vi. p. 11., "The
Intronization of Nevill."