provine

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NATO admitted on Thursday that a helicopter mistakenly dropped military supplies in the wrong place in southern Afghanistan and that they had subsequently disappeared [...] "On March 25, a private helicopter company was contracted, on behalf of an ISAF unit, to resupply an Afghan National Police (ANP) outpost located in a remote mountain area" of Zabul provine, an ISAF statement said.

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  1. To bury a stock or branch of a vine in the ground and bring up the end at a distance from the root, to form a bearing plant for the next season. This system is extensively practised in the viticulture of several regions of France.

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  • NATO admitted on Thursday that a helicopter mistakenly dropped military supplies in the wrong place in southern Afghanistan and that they had subsequently disappeared [...] "On March 25, a private helicopter company was contracted, on behalf of an ISAF unit, to resupply an Afghan National Police (ANP) outpost located in a remote mountain area" of Zabul provine, an ISAF statement said. —  The Jawa Report
  • Leitrim is located in the north-west of the country within the provine of Connacht. —  American Chronicle
  • I wish the provine owned more land in the city so it would prevent alot of these projects from going on. —  Steve Munro's Web Site
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  1. from French provigner, lay a stock or branch of a vine, from provin, from Latin propago(-gin-), the layer of a vine: see prune. The F. form provigner simulates vigne, a vine.
 

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