All 9 Uses

ration
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Going After Cacciato
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Rations, fresh water, a compass, and maps and stuff.†
Chpt 1 *
Eddie and Harold Murphy opened rations and ate slowly, using their fingers.†
Chpt 1
Cacciato eluded them but he left behind the wastes of his march: empty ration cans, bits of bread, a belt of gold-cased ammo dangling from a shrub, a leaking canteen, candy wrappers, worn rope.†
Chpt 1
You tell him we're out of rations?†
Chpt 1
They ate cold rations, packed up, watched the sky light itself in patches.†
Chpt 1
A few empty ration cans, some Hershey bar wrappers, Cacciato's dog tags.†
Chpt 3
Sometimes, during the hot afternoons beneath the tower, he would look out to sea and imagine using it as a means of escape—stocking Oscar's raft with plenty of rations and foul-weather gear and drinking water, then shoving out through the first heavy breakers, then hoisting up a poncho as a sail, then lying back and letting the winds and currents carry him away—to Samoa, maybe, or to some hidden isle in the South Pacific, or to Hawaii, or maybe all the way home.†
Chpt 5
He helped the two old women into the cart, gathered up a bag of rations, and waved at Oscar.†
Chpt 10
They spent the evening making preparations, mending packs and filling canteens and setting aside rations.†
Chpt 10

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)