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pret
< Cdn F prêt; cf. F prêt soldier's five-day pay allowance
Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a ration of food; rations; share.
Quotations
1800
The "Red Knife" brought us 25 pieces of fish . . . . Gave the prey to them as usual.
1869
A dog's "prey" is half of a man's, and the same as a wife's—that is, four pounds of fresh meat, one and a half pounds of dry meat, two fresh white fish or two pounds of dry fish.
1896
The woman . . . yield's the lion's share of the scanty larder when he is at home luxuriating in smoke and sleep, and, when he is away, gives her children her tiny pret (allowance) of fish and goes hungry without a murmur.
1896
The inhabitants of the trading stations during the winter of '93-'94 were upon the verge of starvation themselves, and certainly could not have relieved the natives in case of famine.