[= F. tranche, f. trancher to cut: see TRENCH. Now only as a loan-word from French.] A cutting, a cut; a piece cut off, a slice.
c. 1500. Melusine, xi. 43. The said fontayne, where as grett tranchis [p. 50 trenchis] or keruyng was made within the harde roche.
1893. P. Fitzgerald, in Month, July, 337. Huge baskets … in which were huge tranches of bread.
