cater

To provide, particularly

Noe widdowes curse caters a dish of mine.

Priya’s parents’ Hinduism seemed to present conflicting views of sex: […] What people don’t know about the Kama Sutra is that it’s actually a text that … very heavily caters to Madonna/whore complexes. That it’s actually quite misogynistic. And that it’s actually catered more for male pleasure and … males always will have the upper hand according to the Kama Sutra.

To provide

I catered for her bat mitzvah.

His company catered our wedding.

To provide

I always wanted someone to cater to my every whim.

Art... was... catering to the national taste and vanity.

To provide

The business caters for young professionals.

A gents' toilet room might be found in a house that caters for the cheaper class of theatrical patronage, where the slangy language of the "goin' to the mat this aft?" style prevails. A gents toilet room is not found in the Southern Hotel. It either "men's" or "gentlemen's".

Synonym of acater: an officer who purchased cates (food supplies) for the steward of a large household or estate.

I am oure Catour and bere oure Alther purse.

Rec. for iij calvys off þe cater of Crystis Cherche.

Synonym of caterer: any provider of food.

Of his diete catour was scarsite...

Synonym of purveyor: any provider of anything.

The eye is loues Cator.

To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally.

The trees are set checkerwise, and so catred [Latin: partim in quincuncem directis], as looke which way ye wyl, they lye leuel.

‘Cater’ across the rails ever so cleverly, you cannot escape jolt and jar.