Provender
['prɒvɪndə] or ['prɑvɪndɚ]
Definition
(n.) Dry food for domestic animals, as hay, straw, corn, oats, or a mixture of ground grain; feed.
(n.) Food or provisions.
Edited by Adela
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Food (as hay, corn, &c., for brutes), fodder, forage.
Editor: Miriam
Definition
n. dry food for beasts as hay or corn: esp. a mixture of meal and cut straw or hay.—v.t. to feed.
Typist: Vilma
Examples
- Pancks recognised the sally in his usual way, and took in his provender in his usual way. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- They went, however, and I waited long for food--no wonder--the gouty Sacristan was even too busy with his own provender to mind mine. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Typist: Margery