PROVISION(S)
ADJECTIVES
► ANNONARY pert. to provisions → 1651
NOUNS
► ACATERY ► ACATRY ► ACCATRY ► ACHATRY provisions purchased; also, the room or place allotted to the keeping of all such provisions → 1377 obs.
► ACATES ► ACHATES things purchased; such provisions as were not made in the house, but had to be purchased fresh when wanted, as meat, fish, etc.; hence, all provisions except the home produce of the baker and brewer; dainties, delicacies → 1465 obs.
► BAGGING food, provisions → 1805 Eng. dial.
► BELLY-CHEER food of all kinds; provisions → 1579 obs.
► BELLY-TIMBER food, provisions → 1607 obs. exc. Eng. & Amer. dial. obs.
► CATES things purchased; such provisions as were not made in the house, but had to be purchased fresh when wanted, as meat, fish, etc.; hence, all provisions except the home produce of the baker and brewer; dainties, delicacies; in later use, sometimes merely victuals, food → 1465 obs.
► CHEER provisions; food → 1675 US
► CRIB food, provisions; a light meal, a snack; a piece of bread, cake, etc. → 1652 Eng. dial., Aust. & NZ
► ENTERTAINMENT provisions and lodging → 1767 US
► FARM food, provision; hence, a banquet, a feast → a900 obs.
► FURNITURE that with which one is provided; a stock or supply of anything; stores in general, provisions; necessaries → 1549 obs.
► GRUBBINS food, provisions; a meal → 1847 Amer. sl.
► GRUBSTAKE money or provisions → 1881 Amer. sl.
► LAIDNER a larder, a meat safe; a winter’s stock of provisions → 1825 Sc. obs.
► MUNITION a providing something; provision → 1480 obs.
► ORDINANCE the act or process of making ready, preparing, or providing; preparation, provision, equipment; a preparatory step or measure; hence, the result of such → c1374 obs.
► PREY something which is procured as or serves for food, not necessarily meat; provisions or rations → 1382 obs.
► PROG food, provisions → 1834 Amer. dial.
► PURVEYS provisions → 1615 obs.
► SCAFF food, provisions of any kind → 1768 Sc.
► SCAFF-AND-RAFF abundant provisions → 1829 Sc. obs.
► SCAFFING food of any kind; abundant provision → 1827 Sc. obs.
► SCAFF-RAFF abundant provisions → 1815 Sc.
► SCRAN ► SKRAN food, provisions, victuals, esp. inferior or scrappy food → 1801 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SUBMINISTRATION ministering support; provision, supply → 1582 obs.
► TIMBER provision, fare → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TOMMY food, provisions generally → 1911
► VIATICUM provisions for a journey → 1678 US
► VIEVERS ► VIVERS food, provisions, victuals, eatables → 1714 Sc.
NOUNS – PERSON
► ACATER ► ACATOUR ► ACHATER ► ACHATOR ► ACHATOUR a purchaser of provisions; a purveyor; a provider or preparer of ‘cates’ or delicacies; a caterer → 1386 obs.
► MANCIPLE an officer or servant who purchases provisions for a college, an inn of court, a monastery, etc. → a1225
► OBSONATOR a caterer or manciple (an officer who buys provisions for a college, monastery or other institution) → 1656 obs.
► PURVEYOR a domestic officer responsible for procuring or requisitioning provisions, as food, lodging, etc., for the household of a monarch or other high-ranking person → 1325
VERBS
► ALLEGOGER to go out to a ship to sell provisions → 1863 Eng. dial.
► GRUBSTAKE to provide with a grubstake → 1879 Amer. sl.
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