Both Uses
ration
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Lee Surrenders to Grant
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- They have been living for the last few days principally upon parched corn, and we are badly in need of both rations and forage....†
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- I will take steps at once to have your army supplied with rations, but I am sorry we have no forage for the animals.†
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)