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# lard

noun; verb (lards, larded, larding)

«lard» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Lard is the white fat from a pig, used in cooking. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lard/#m1)
2. (old use) To lard is to push small strips of fat into meat before cooking it, or to fill food with extra things. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lard/#m2)

### In the lessons

in cooking lard is fat for frying and pastry; in fairy tales a witch larded puddings with odd things like glow-worms

### Examples

- Mum fried the potatoes in lard. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lard/#x1)
- The cook larded the roast with strips of bacon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lard/#x2)
- The witch larded the pudding with glow-worms. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lard/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «lard» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lard/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«lard» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lard.html) on Mova free.