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# provender

«provender» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **fodder, animal food** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/provender/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/provender/#x1)
- "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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/provender/#x2)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/provender/#x3)

### 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.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.646/)
- [They cut his provender in the field; and they despoil the vineyard of the wicked.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.626/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «provender» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/provender/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.