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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lard/#m1)

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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lard/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lard/#x1)
- The cook larded the roast with strips of bacon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lard/#x2)
- The witch larded the pudding with glow-worms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lard/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

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