Significados de small ration em inglês

Salt, sugar and mustard came out of small ration bags.

A small ration of meat was also served out.

The prisoners reached the camp in the usual famishing condition and were given a small ration.

The general served out a small ration of water and rum, every drop of which was precious.

I carried the Köhler's over to the counter, where Lucy Brand waited eagerly for me to spill some small ration of beans.

She now takes care of that by giving the cat a small ration of catnip when she gives her husband a drink.

Comfortably ensconced in the sleeping-bags, we ate only a small ration of food; the savings being carefully put away for a future "rainy day."

If they sent her off, she'd lose what small rations she was still getting.

Rough work and small rations are, I hear, the rule.

Farmers were on small rations, and the foragers had quit looking for what did not exist.

Small rations were taken in a small wagon train, which was loaded to its capacity for rapid movement.

Then they laid out a plan of procedure, and divided the food into as small rations as would support life.

They divided this up into very small rations, with the hope that they could make it last for six days.

The captures consisted largely of cattle, sheep, poultry, some bacon, cornmeal, often molasses, and occasionally coffee or other small rations.

We ate and drank our small rations-mycompanion always blessing the meal, and offering a thanksgiving for being permitted to enjoy it.