Larder
['lɑːdə] or ['lɑrdɚ]
Definition
(n.) A room or place where meat and other articles of food are kept before they are cooked.
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Definition
n. a room or place where meat &c. is kept: stock of provisions.—n. Lard′erer one who has charge of a larder.
Editor: Thea
Unserious Contents or Definition
A fattener.
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Examples
- I was accustomed to speak of the larder when I lived with papa and mama, and I use the word almost unconsciously. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I'm persistent in wantin' to get up which ary side my larder is; don't you see, all on yer? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Let the contents of the larder and the wine-cellar be brought up, put into the hay-carts, and driven down to the Hollow. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In troth, replied the Outlaw, for I scorn to lie to your Grace, our larder is chiefly supplied with-- He stopped, and was somewhat embarrassed. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Martin knew the way to the larder, and knowing this way he took it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There are men pitted against men, and against beasts for the edification of Issus and the replenishment of her larder. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Martin, safe in the larder, made fastidious selection from its stores. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Huge flies, ignorant of larders and wire-netting, and quite in a savage state, buzzed about him without knowing that he was a man. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Editor: Ned