provender
kind
archaic word
modern equivalent
fodder, animal food
part of speech
noun
meaning for a pupil
Dry food for horses and farm animals, such as hay, straw or oats. tree →
how it differs from today
Old-fashioned; today we say fodder or feed, and "provender" is found in old texts.
examples
- She said moreover unto him: 'We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.' (Torah GEN.24.25, JPS 1917) tree →
- "The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh" (No. xxxiii.) also requires the milk of nine kye for its daily rations, and cow's milk is the ordinary provender of such kittle cattle (Grimms' Teut. (More English Fairy Tales) tree →
- And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender. (Torah GEN.43.24, JPS 1917) tree →
primary record
provender
tests
manual 10.4; corpora 5 (Torah 4, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.6 (Torah alone 9.3); Wiktionary no archaic label
In the corpora
- She said moreover unto him: 'We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.'
- They cut his provender in the field; and they despoil the vineyard of the wicked.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «provender» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.