provender
/ˈpɹɑvəndɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.64 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "...and in a few moments would have had their hands on one hundred and eighty thousand dollars of gold, when from some cause unknown, they decamped leaving all their tools behind, together with provender for the seige."
- "The farm which supplied to him ungrudging provender had all his vast capacity for work in willing exercise …"
- "He ripp'd the womb up of his mother, / Dame Tellus, 'cause he wanted fother, / And provender, wherewith to feed / Himself and his less cruel steed."
- "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."
- "(...) hobbits were easy-going with their children in the matter of sitting up late, especially when there was a chance of getting them a free meal. Bringing up young hobbits took a lot of provender."
- "One night, after several days of continuous plowing, and after the ox and mule had been stabled and provendered for the night, the ox said to the mule […]"
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: provendre, -, praebenda
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɹɑvəndɚ/
- British English: /ˈpɹɒvɪndə/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.