tender
/ˈtɛn.dɚ/ noun C2- A specialized rail wagon hauled behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
- A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships. · submarine tender· destroyer tender
- A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
- A member of a diving team who assists a diver during a dive but does not themselves go underwater.
- Someone who tends or waits on something or someone.
Plural tenders
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He called to her and earnestly begged her to come lower down, lest she fall by some mishap; and he added that the meadows lay where he was standing, and that the herbage was most tender.
What is that little animal you are so tender of?”
A BEAR boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had such respect for him that he would not even touch his dead body.
When the Tin Woodman walked about he felt his heart rattling around in his breast; and he told Dorothy he had discovered it to be a kinder and more tender heart than the one he had owned when he was made of flesh.
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