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Answer for the clue "Help to some food ", 7 letters:
serving

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Word definitions for serving in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"action of serving," c.1200, verbal noun from serve (v.). As "a helping of food" from 1769.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Serving \Serv"ing\, a. & n. from Serve . Serving board (Naut.), a flat piece of wood used in serving ropes. Serving maid , a female servant; a maidservant. Serving mallet (Naut.), a wooden instrument shaped like a mallet, used in serving ropes. Serving ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Serving may refer to: Serving size Providing a non-material good, as in the work of a servant Supplying customers with food and drink, as in the work of a food server Service of process , the procedure for delivering a legal or administrative summons Serving ...

Usage examples of serving.

WCBA, a wholly owned affiliate of the CBA network, was a prestigious local station serving the New York area.

Caira would have her skirt sewn to show petticoats to the middle of her thigh or higher had Mistress Anan allowed it, but the innkeeper looked after her serving women almost as closely as she did her daughters.

In England, because of his extreme Anarchist views, Most broke with Marx and, after serving eighteen months at hard labor for advocating regicide, he emigrated in 1882 to the United States.

Gaston soon saw that he was serving his apprenticeship on a slaver, one of the many ships sent yearly by the free and philanthropic Americans, who made immense fortunes by carrying on the slave-trade.

No one living that Anaxthenes could find ever remembered the elderly Archpriest serving in the Sacred Squares or any other army.

Pretending to be setting an example, Prairie slid over to one of the work counters, wrestled a hot baloney into place, quickly sharpened a knife, and began to carve the object into steaming, purple-rimmed slices, which she arranged attractively on a serving platter, generously spooning more shiny grape liquid over the top, to be carried in and set on one of the mess-hall tables, where eaters would serve themselves except for the people in assertiveness programs, of course, who sat over at their own table and each got a separate plate with the food already on it.

She was not a serving girl, that much was obvious from the richness of her barracan and the cosmetics that highlighted her face, bringing the eyes and rich red mouth into prominence.

THAT evening, following dinner in the gloomy old Bartram dining room, where Mahinda silently stalked about the table, serving food, Willard Saybrook mentioned to Grace Bartram that he had made a very interesting acquaintance in the person of Harry Vincent.

Black waiters in white serving jackets move through the crowd with trays of drinks, while the experts ponder their racing forms and the hunch bettors pick lucky numbers or scan the lineup for right-sounding names.

Newberry, the botanist who had worked with Petrie at Hawara, introduced as a promising painter of Egyptian scenes, a square-jawed, clean-shaven American named Reisner, who was serving as a member of the International Catalogue Commission of the Cairo Museum, and a Herr Bursch, a former student of Ebers at Berlin.

Captain Houser, Major Dillon, Lieutenant Lewis, and a sailor serving as lookout and talker.

The present Archbishop of Manilla, whose reputation for piety and good feeling towards all men stands very high, is an old soldier, who, after serving his king when a young man as lieutenant of cavalry for several years, changed his master, and assuming the habit of a priest, devoted himself to religion for the remainder of his life.

The serving girl watched them both with avid curiosity as Mathe stopped a few feet away.

The girl in the food court remembers serving Mellon and the little kid, and thinking how cute they looked sitting at the table together.

There, Nitta performed the ritual of welcoming Sano and serving tea with an elaborate courtesy that conveyed his antipathy more clearly than could blatant insults.