provender
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English provendre, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French provendre, variant of provende (“allowance, provision”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin praebenda (“a payment, in (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin also an allowance of food and drink, pittance, also a prebend”); see prebend.
Pronunciation
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Noun
provender (usually uncountable, plural provenders)
- (dated) Food, especially for livestock.
- Synonyms: fodder; see also Thesaurus:food
- 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 2
- 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:
- Irregular, sporadic feeding and strange provender were beginning to take their toll, and I felt queasy at the thought of 'various curries' the Amat's clerk had promised for the first meal of the day.
Translations
food, especially for livestock
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Verb
provender (third-person singular simple present provenders, present participle provendering, simple past and past participle provendered)
- (transitive) To feed.
- 1911, International Horseshoers' Monthly Magazine (volume 12, page 35)
- One night, after several days of continuous plowing, and after the ox and mule had been stabled and provendered for the night, the ox said to the mule […]
- 1911, International Horseshoers' Monthly Magazine (volume 12, page 35)
Further reading
- “provender”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “provender”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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