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Proant   Listen
noun
Proant, Provand  n.  Provender or food. (Obs.) "One pease was a soldier's provant a whole day."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Proant" Quotes from Famous Books



... always a ready fancy and some of the natural vanity of youth, so I could see myself landing off the lugger at the quay of Inneraora town, three inches more of a man than when I left with a firkin of herring and a few bolls of meal for my winter's provand; thicker too at the chest, and with a jacket of London green cloth with brass buttons. Would the fishermen about the quay-head not lean over the gun'les of their skiffs and say, "There goes young Elrigmore from Colleging, well-knit in troth, and a pretty ...
— John Splendid - The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn • Neil Munro



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