All 15 Uses
ration
in
Animal Farm
(Edited)
- In return for your four confinements and all your labor in the fields, what have you ever had except your bare rations and a stall?
p. 8.8rations = fixed portions of something that is allotted -- especially food for military personnel
- Napoleon then led them back to the store-shed and served out a double ration of corn to everybody, with two biscuits for each dog.
p. 21.6ration = a fixed portion of something given as a person's share when there is a shortage
- Nobody stole, nobody grumbled over his rations, the quarrelling and biting and jealousy which had been normal features of life in the old days had almost disappeared.
p. 29.8rations = fixed portions of something that is allotted -- especially food for military personnel
- He did not give any reason for having changed his mind, but merely warned the animals that this extra task would mean very hard work, it might even be necessary to reduce their rations.
p. 57.5
- This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
p. 59.7
- The corn ration was drastically reduced, and it was announced that an extra potato ration would be issued to make up for it.
p. 74.5ration = a fixed portion of something given as a person's share when there is a shortage
- The corn ration was drastically reduced, and it was announced that an extra potato ration would be issued to make up for it.
p. 74.5
- Hitherto the animals had had little or no contact with Whymper on his weekly visits: now, however, a few selected animals, mostly sheep, were instructed to remark casually in his hearing that rations had been increased.
p. 75.3rations = fixed portions of something that is allotted -- especially food for military personnel
- He ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death.
p. 76.8
- Once again all rations were reduced, except those of the pigs and the dogs.
p. 112.6 *rations = limited portions of food given out
- A too rigid equality in rations, Squealer explained, would have been contrary to the principles of Animalism.
p. 112.7rations = fixed portions of something that is allotted -- especially food for military personnel
- For the time being, certainly, it had been found necessary to make a readjustment of rations (Squealer always spoke of it as a 'readjustment,' never as a 'reduction'), but in comparison with the days of Jones, the improvement was enormous.
p. 112.9
- Rations, reduced in December, were reduced again in February, and lanterns in the stalls were forbidden to save Oil.
p. 114.8
- And the news soon leaked out that every pig was now receiving a ration of a pint of beer daily, with half a gallon for Napoleon himself, which was always served to him in the Crown Derby soup tureen.
p. 115.4ration = a fixed portion of something given as a person's share when there is a shortage
- After much choking, during which his various chins turned purple, he managed to get it out: 'If you have your lower animals to contend with,' he said, 'we have our lower classes!' This bon mot set the table in a roar; and Mr. Pilkington once again congratulated the pigs on the low rations, the long working hours, and the general absence of pampering which he had observed on Animal Farm.
p. 138.6rations = fixed portions of something that is allotted -- especially food for military personnel
Definitions:
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(1)
(ration) a fixed share of something, especially scarce goods like food or fuel; or to limit and distribute something in fixed shares
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)