larder - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Inherited from Middle English larder, from Anglo-Norman larder and Old French lardier, from Latin lardārium. By surface analysis, lard +‎ -er.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑː.də/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑɹ.dɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

larder (plural larders)

1. A cool room in a domestic house where food is stored, but larger than a pantry.
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XVI [Uniform ed., p. 169]:

     He had always intended to marry when he could afford it; and once he had been in love, violently in love, but had laid the passion aside, and told it to wait till a more convenient season. … But when, after the lapse of fifteen years, he went, as it were, to his spiritual larder and took down Love from the top shelf to offer him to Mrs. Orr, he was rather dismayed.

2. A food supply.

   • 1990, Stephen B. Vander Wall, Food Hoarding in Animals, page 243:

     Many of these cones had opened, and nuthatches visited the tree frequently to take seeds from the squirrel's larder.

• larder beetle

• Ardler, radler

From lard.

• IPA^(key): /laʁ.de/

larder

1. to lard; to smear food with lard
2. to stab; to pierce

• lard

• “larder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• laardere, lardere, lardre, lardure, lardyr, lardyre

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman larder and continental Old French lardier, both from Latin lardārium. By surface analysis, lard +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /larˈdeːr/, /ˈlardər/

larder

1. A stock of meat (originally cured pork)
2. The place where such a stock is made and stored.
3. (figuratively) Bloodshed, killing.

• English: larder
• Middle Scots: lairder

• “lā̆rder, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.