only 1 use
(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
to offer something
in various senses, including:
- to hold something out for someone to take
- to offer a suggestion for acceptance or rejection
- to offer a good or service for sale
- to offer a gift
- to offer peace or friendship
- And in August, high in air, the beautiful and bountiful horse-chestnuts, candelabra-wise, proffer the passer-by their tapering upright cones of congregated blossoms.Chapters 4-6 -- The Counter-Pane; Breakfast; The Street (96% in)
There are no more uses of "proffer" in Moby Dick.
Typical Usage
(best examples)