provenderとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒvɪndə/, /ˈpɹɒvəndə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɑvəndɚ/

名詞

provender (usually uncountable, 複数形 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 213819910:

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

   • 1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, OCLC 890163163; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, OCLC 963614346, canto CANTO 2:

     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.