different between larker vs larder

English

Etymology

lark +? -er

Noun

larker (plural larkers)

1. A catcher of larks (the bird).
2. One who indulges in a lark or frolic.

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman larder and Old French lardier, from Latin lard?rium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??.d?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l??.d?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?(?)

Noun

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.

Translations

Anagrams

• radler

French

Verb

larder

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

Conjugation

Related terms

• lard

Further reading

• “larder” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).