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cater

/ˈkeɪtə/ · noun

Meaning

  1. Caterer
  2. To provide, particularly:
  3. A person employed to obtain and maintain the storage of provisions, especially food.
  4. A person or company hired to provide and serve food, usually for a large group and at a location separate from where the food is prepared.
  5. Someone who supplies what is needed, especially food.
  6. An officer who provided provisions for the king's household.
  7. A procurer; a pimp.
  8. To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally.
  9. Diagonally.
  10. Four.
  11. The four of cards or dice.
  12. A method of ringing nine bells in four pairs with a ninth tenor bell.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

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