All 4 Uses

ration
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Treasure Island
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But the rations are short, very short—so short, Dr. Livesey, that we're perhaps as well without that extra mouth.†
Chpt 18
The captain sat down to his log, and here is the beginning of the entry: Alexander Smollett, master; David Livesey, ship's doctor; Abraham Gray, carpenter's mate; John Trelawney, owner; John Hunter and Richard Joyce, owner's servants, landsmen—being all that is left faithful of the ship's company—with stores for ten days at short rations, came ashore this day and flew British colours on the log-house in Treasure Island.†
Chpt 18
They had "got their rations for that day," as the captain put it, and we had the place to ourselves and a quiet time to overhaul the wounded and get dinner.†
Chpt 22 *
Bright and early, to be sure; and it's the early bird, as the saying goes, that gets the rations.†
Chpt 30

Definitions:

(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)