provender
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒvɪndə/ / /ˈpɹɒvəndə/ / /ˈpɹɑvəndɚ/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English provendre, from Old French provendre, variant of provende (“allowance, provision”), from Late Latin praebenda (“a payment, in Medieval Latin also an allowance of food and drink, pittance, also a prebend”). Doublet of prebend.
- Food, especially for livestock.
“...and in a few moments would have had their hands on one hundred and eighty thousand dollars of gold, when from some cause unknown, they decamped leaving all their tools behind, together with provender for the seige.”
“The farm which supplied to him ungrudging provender had all his vast capacity for work in willing exercise …”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English provendre, from Old French provendre, variant of provende (“allowance, provision”), from Late Latin praebenda (“a payment, in Medieval Latin also an allowance of food and drink, pittance, also a prebend”). Doublet of prebend.
- To feed.
“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 […]”