noun
provender
Provender (noun) means Food, particularly the kind given to farm animals.
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Food, particularly the kind given to farm animals.
"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."
— Norman Lewis, Golden Earth (1952)
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Etymology
It developed from Middle English provendre, from Old French provendre, a 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"). It is a doublet of prebend.
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What is the meaning of provender?
"provender" (noun) means food, particularly the kind given to farm animals.
What is another word for provender?
Other words for "provender" include victuals, feed, viands, provisions, commissariat.
