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Relay :: Relay (n.) A supply of anything arranged beforehand for affording relief from time to time, or at successive stages; provision for successive relief..

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

Ammunition :: Ammunition (n.) Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense..

Cellar :: Cellar (n.) A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept..

Garland :: Garland (n.) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in.

Provision :: Provision (n.) A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation..

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

Inexhaustible :: Inexhaustible (a.) Incapable of being exhausted, emptied, or used up; unfailing; not to be wasted or spent; as, inexhaustible stores of provisions; an inexhaustible stock of elegant words..

Victualer :: Victualer (n.) A vessel employed to carry provisions, usually for military or naval use; a provision use; a provision ship..

Large :: Large (superl.) Abundant; ample; as, a large supply of provisions..

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

Depot :: Depot (n.) A military station where stores and provisions are kept, or where recruits are assembled and drilled..

Allowance :: Allowance (n.) That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short..

Battler :: Battler (n.) A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge..

Subsistence :: Subsistence (n.) That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence..

Homesteader :: Homesteader (n.) One who has entered upon a portion of the public land with the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in this manner..

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

Metonymy :: Metonymy (n.) A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections..

Hoard :: Hoard (n.) A store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid up; a hidden supply; a treasure; as, a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money..

Invest :: Invest (v. t.) To inclose; to surround of hem in with troops, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town..

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