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country provisions Fur Trade, Hist.

• game and other food available from the forests and streams of the country.

  See also: country food  country produce (def. 2)  English provisions  

  • 1717  (1932)  The Country Provisions is very scarce here at present.
  • 1853  (1944)  I would impress upon your mind the great importance of securing as large a stock of country provisions as possible seeing that the stock here [Fort Victoria] is quite inadequate to meet all the demands upon it.
  • 1963  [At] an alternative site to the south of Cape Jones . . . country provisions could be obtained to supplement European fare. . . .