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provender

Provender (noun) means Food, especially for livestock.

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Food, especially for livestock.
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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.

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"provender" (noun) means food, especially for livestock.

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