The word "provender" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to animal feed or provisions. You can use it when discussing livestock or agricultural contexts. Example: "The farmer stocked up on provender to ensure his animals had enough food for the winter." Alternatives include "fodder" or "feed."
So does Damien Hirst, who is an enthusiastic collector.Banksy provides expensive provender for the contemporary art market, and if this is his strength, it is also his weakness: he is very easy to copy.
Neither food nor provender are supplied in a caravansary, but a porter appointed by the municipal authority is always present, lodged just within the gate.
You can find foreign accents in this part of Surrey – a vacherin mousse, some ricotta gnocchi, foie gras, orange polenta – but you know they're tolerated only for bringing heady new flavours to the local provender.
He'd kept his father's yeast going halfway across North America, and he was always seeking new sources of provender.
The profusion of provender — the array of colors and shapes, the gleaming fruits, fishes, and meats, the grains and cakes and ranges of artisanal cheeses and beers — is as much an apotheosis of America's abundance and reach as it is any kind of refutation of it.
Supper was venison hash or a platter of fried sage hen she had shot, but not beans, which Archie said had been and still were the main provender at Peck's.
The new army would need uniforms – many, given the rigors of marching – as well as food, blankets for the cold, good tents to withstand the elements, hospitals at the front and horses and mules as well as the provender to keep them functional.
Beyond that, "we are all farm-to-truck," Ms. Lampert said of Ladle's provender, which "comes as much as possible from local growers.
Learn more about the word "provender" and see usage examples across a range of subjects on the Vocabulary dictionary.
