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provender

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɹɒvɪndə/Part of speech nounSorted deenoprrvStarts with PEnds with R0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a stock or supply of foods

Word origin

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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  • ...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.

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