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provender

noun as in food

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Some of us went to have a peek at the egg, which it had left open, and its stack of provender.

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Besides their livestock and the wild provender found in the hills, the Dongria still farm as many as twenty-five or thirty crops.

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‘And you need not turn up your nose at the provender, Master Gimli,’ said Merry.

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Bringing up young hobbits took a lot of provender.

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While Mr. Steelman’s food doesn’t have the dramatic flair of Mr. Burke’s, it remains creative and often surprising, somewhat global, and focused on American provender.

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