lard

«lard» in Mova's school dictionary: the white fat from a pig, used in cooking — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun; verb (lards, larded, larding)

meaning for a pupil

1) Lard is the white fat from a pig, used in cooking. tree →

2) (old use) To lard is to push small strips of fat into meat before cooking it, or to fill food with extra things. tree →

sense in the lessons

in cooking lard is fat for frying and pastry; in fairy tales a witch larded puddings with odd things like glow-worms

examples

• Mum fried the potatoes in lard. tree →
• The cook larded the roast with strips of bacon. tree →
• The witch larded the pudding with glow-worms. tree →

note

nothing for maths.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «lard» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.