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Buttery :: Buttery (n.) An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept..

Cater :: Cater (n.) To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions..

Endowment :: Endowment (n.) The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support..

Assize :: Assize (n.) A statute or ordinance in general. Specifically: (1) A statute regulating the weight, measure, and proportions of ingredients and the price of articles sold in the market; as, the assize of bread and other provisions; (2) A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures..

Sutural :: Suttle (v. i.) To act as sutler; to supply provisions and other articles to troops.

Pensionary :: Pensionary (a.) Consisting of a pension; as, a pensionary provision for maintenance..

Provision :: Provision (n.) The act of providing, or making previous preparation..

Regrate :: Regrate (v. t.) To buy in large quantities, as corn, provisions, etc., at a market or fair, with the intention of selling the same again, in or near the same place, at a higher price, -- a practice which was formerly treated as a public offense..

Purveyor :: Purveyor (n.) An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision, for the king's household..

Catery :: Catery (n.) The place where provisions are deposited.

Provisory :: Provisory (a.) Making temporary provision; provisional.

Shifter :: Shifter (n.) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions..

Store :: Store (v. t.) Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family..

Statutable :: Statutable (a.) Made or introduced by statute; proceeding from an act of the legistature; as, a statutable provision or remedy..

Battel :: Battel (v. i.) To be supplied with provisions from the buttery.

Victualing :: Victualing (a.) Of or pertaining to victuals, or provisions; supplying provisions; as, a victualing ship..

Purveyor :: Purveyor (n.) One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer..

Forage :: Forage (n.) The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc..

Grist :: Grist (n.) Supply; provision.

Distress :: Distress (n.) A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc..

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