Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Dry food, such as hay, used as feed for livestock.
- noun Food or provisions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To feed; fodder, as a horse.
- noun Food; provisions; especially, dry food for beasts, as hay, straw, or corn; fodder.
- noun A prebend.
- noun Synonyms Fodder, etc. See
feed , n.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Dry food for domestic animals, as hay, straw, corn, oats, or a mixture of ground grain; feed.
- noun R or Obs. Food or provisions.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Food , especially forlivestock . - noun An
edible material that providessustenance .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun food for domestic livestock
- noun a stock or supply of foods
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Mmmm, the crops are coming in and the price of provender is down.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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They were compelled to seek their provender from the sea, and in time they became salt-water men.
Chapter 15 1913
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They were compelled to seek their provender from the sea, and in time they became salt-water men.
Chapter 15 1911
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The Arab proverb is, "Sweet provender is as bread to camels -- salted provender as confectionery."
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It were better to be a panniered jack-ass and pick up my scanty provender from the ditch, than be a garter’d peer in such a home as this. —
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Seemingly the only Londoners who enjoy any extensive variety in their provender are the slum-dwellers.
Europe Revised 1910
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Their provender is a species of grain called _donna_, somewhat like our pease, which are boiled, and then given cold to the horses, mixed with coarse sugar; and twice or thrice a week they have butter given them to scour their bodies.
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When the devil's atheistic "provender" tries to vend to you a pack of bubblegum lies without even the barest invocation of what the Bibo Sez - well, betwixt your unending screams of pain and remorse, those who believe what the Bibo Sez will have all of eternity to cackle at your evil folly.
Cult awareness workshop Saturday at Garland church | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009
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British Guiana, there can be no doubt that the sugar cane will be replanted at shorter intervals of time than at present, and that other crops, such as provender crops for cattle, and provision crops for the colonial and perhaps the home market, will be made to alternate in cultivation with the cane.
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He said he would go out for some fresh "provender" and "sort o 'earn his keep" that way.
Far Past the Frontier W. H. [Illustrator] Fry 1913
bilby commented on the word provender
"I found a bench to myself, and began to bite greedily into my provender. It did me good; it was a long time since I had had such a square meal, and, by degrees, I felt the same sated quiet steal over me that one feels after a good long cry."
- Knut Hamsun, 'Hunger'.
July 25, 2009
jaime_d commented on the word provender
"We had provender for a fortnight in the wilderness. . ." "Fifty-seven Views of Fujiyama" by Guy Davenport
January 19, 2010
dailyword commented on the word provender
This word was used in "The Fellowship Of The Rings" book when talking about Bilbo's birthday party.
February 10, 2013