Provender

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Provender \Prov"en*der\, n. [OE. provende, F. provende,
     provisions, provender, fr. LL. praebenda (prae and pro being
     confused), a daily allowance of provisions, a prebend. See
     {Prebend}.]
     1. Dry food for domestic animals, as hay, straw, corn, oats,
        or a mixture of ground grain; feed. "Hay or other


        provender." --Mortimer.
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              Good provender laboring horses would have. --Tusser.
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     2. Food or provisions. [R or Obs.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  provender
       n 1: food for domestic livestock [syn: {feed}]
       2: a stock or supply of foods [syn: {commissariat}, {provisions},
           {viands}, {victuals}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  79 Moby Thesaurus words for "provender":
     aliment, barley, bird seed, board, bran, bread, bread and butter,
     canned foods, cat food, cheer, chicken feed, chop, chow,
     comestibles, commissariat, commissary, corn, creature comfort,
     cuisine, daily bread, dehydrated foods, dog food, eatables, eatage,
     eats, edibles, ensilage, fare, fast food, feast, feed, fodder,
     food, food and drink, food supply, foodstuff, foodstuffs, forage,
     fresh foods, frozen foods, grain, groceries, grocery, grub, hay,
     health food, ingesta, junk food, kitchen stuff, larder, mash, meal,
     meat, merchandise, nourishment, nurture, oats, pasturage, pasture,
     pet food, provision, provisions, rations, scratch, scratch feed,
     silage, slops, spread, stores, straw, supplies, sustenance, swill,
     table, tucker, viands, victuals, vittles, wheat