Both Uses
ration
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Two Old Women
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- There, they built a fire and, after eating some of the rabbit meat they had carefully rationed, they returned for their sleds and resumed their journey.†
p. 39.6 *rationed = restricted in the amount each person could have
- The colder days came and stayed a long time, and The People carefully rationed the food that the old women shared.†
p. 116.7
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)