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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpɹɒvɪndə/, /ˈpɹɒvəndə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈpɹɑvəndɚ/

名詞

provender (usually uncountable, plural provenders)

1. (dated) Food, especially for livestock.

   Synonyms: fodder; see also Thesaurus:food

   • 1859, George Meredith, chapter 12, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:

     The farm which supplied to him ungrudging provender had all his vast capacity for work in willing exercise …

   • 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto CANTO 2.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:

     Irregular, sporadic feeding and strange provender were beginning to take their toll, and I felt queasy at the thought of 'various curries' the Amat's clerk had promised for the first meal of the day.

   • 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Chapter I, A long-expected party:

     (...) hobbits were easy-going with their children in the matter of sitting up late, especially when there was a chance of getting them a free meal. Bringing up young hobbits took a lot of provender.

動詞

provender (third-person singular simple present provenders, present participle provendering, simple past and past participle provendered)

1. (transitive) To feed.
   • 1911, International Horseshoers' Monthly Magazine, volume 12, page 35:

     One night, after several days of continuous plowing, and after the ox and mule had been stabled and provendered for the night, the ox said to the mule […]

Further reading

• “provender”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “provender”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.