1. white fat from a pig that is rendered and used in cooking

1. to insert strips of fat into lean meat before cooking
2. to enrich or embellish something excessively
Usage: often used with ‘with’

Examples

• The recipe calls for two tablespoons of lard.
• Grandmother always used lard to make her famous pie crusts.
• The butcher showed me how to lard the roast with bacon.
• You should lard the beef with thin strips of fat.
• The speech was larded with unnecessary technical jargon.
• Don’t lard your essay with too many quotations.
• Traditional biscuits were made with lard instead of butter.