To supply with bread.
1842. He always grows enough to bread his own people for a year at least, and sells the balance.—J. S. Buckingham, ‘Slave States,’ ii. 167.
1857. It now takes about one thousand bushels of wheat to bread my family one year, and I want to lay up six thousand for each year of the seven for which I calculate to store it up.—H. C. Kimball at the Bowery, Salt Lake City, April 6: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ v. 20.
1861. [The ladies of Richmond] wine them and cake them—and they deserve it. They are just from taking Fort Sumter, and have won historic distinction.—J. B. Jones, ‘A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary,’ i. 33 (Phila., 1866).
1879. I knew they had enough to bread themselves, and were well able to run a ‘one-horse crop.’—A. Tourgée, ‘A Fool’s Errand,’ p. 91. (N.E.D.)
