provender
Plural: provenders
Noun
- food for domestic livestock
- a stock or supply of foods
- Food, especially for livestock.
Verb
- To feed.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
commissariat, feed, provisions, viands, victuals, aliment, bait, belly-timber, chow, comestibles, cuisine, eatables, eats, edibles, fodder, food, foodstuffs, grub, kai, meals, meat, munchable, nibbles, nosebag, nosh, nourishment, om nom nom, provender, rations, scran, stodge, sustenance, tiffin, tuck, tucker, vittles
Scrabble Score: 15
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