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iron rations

plural noun

  1. emergency food supplies, esp for military personnel in action See also C rations K ration MRE
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Their leather pouches which held enough iron rations to keep them going were always at hand.

A mouthful of iron rations, a drop of tepid water from my flask, which water has a pronounced taste of tin.

The food (iron rations), corned beef and biscuits and tea, and sometimes a little jam, is not conducive to mirth-producing.

In some of them you pack iron rations, food for a day or so.

He was dirty and unshaven inside the unit, sick of iron rations pushed through the airlock, stiff and sore with exertion.

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