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# Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/word-of-the-day-23-2/
- Published: 2019-08-22T18:15:45.000Z
- Updated: 2019-08-22T10:44:12.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

The word for today is…

provender (noun) – 1\. Dry food, such as hay, used as feed for livestock.  
2\. Food or provisions.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/provender?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : When English speakers first chewed on the word provender around 1300, it referred to a stipend (also known as a prebend) that a clergyman received from his cathedral or collegiate church. Within a half a century, the word’s current meanings had developed. These days you’re most likely to encounter provender in articles written by food and travel writers. A few such writers confuse provender with purveyor, meaning “a person or business that sells or provides something,” but most of them keep the words straight, as Deidre Schipani does in this quote from the Post and Courier , of Charleston, South Carolina: “The kitchen remains true to its local roots. Buying from island farmers, fisherman, shrimpers, butchers and small local artisans keeps the provender and purveyors in alignment.”