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Mart and his wife and babies still sojourned there, and the babies waxed strong and loud and lusty on Aunt Jenny's bounty, never caring whose fingers earned the porridge, so long as their share was ample and frequent.

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  1. noun A part or portion belonging to, distributed to, contributed by, or owed by a person or group.
  2. noun An equitable portion: do one's share of the work.
  3. noun Any of the equal parts into which the capital stock of a corporation or company is divided.
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  • The subjects of instruction which fell to my share were arithmetic, drawing, physical geography, and German. —  Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel
  • Citigroup posts a buy recommendation and estimates that £17. 10p ($25) a share is achievable. —  Latest stories
  • However, what will really affect the share will be the guidance for the first quarter and full year of 2009. —  Telecom Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
  • That's a pretty nice increase although the 60 cents a share was a penny below Wall Street's consensus.
  • Their clamour for a share is audible; it is also justified.
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amount ·  stock ·  value ·  account ·  interest ·  advantage ·  fund ·  portion ·  profit ·  increase

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  1. Middle English, from Old English scearu, division; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English, from Old English scēar; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also schare; from Middle English schare, schere, from Anglo-Saxon scearu, *scaru, scaro, a cutting, shearing, tonsure, also a part or division (chiefly in comp., land-scearu, a share of land, folc-scearu, a division of the people, etc.), from sceran (preterit scær, past participle scoren), cut, shear: see shear. Identity of the Anglo-Saxon word with Old High German skara, Middle High German schar, German schaar, schar, troop, host, division of an army, is not probable, as the orig. (Old High German) sense appears to be ‘troop.’ Cf. share, share.
  2. from share, n.
  3. from Middle English share, schare, shaar, schar, ssare, from AS, scear (= OFries. skere, schere = Dutch schaar, in comp. ploeg-schaar, plowshare, = Old High German scaro, Middle High German schar, G. schaar, in comp. pflug-schaar = Danish plouskjær, plowshare), a plowshare, from sceran (preterit scær), shear: see shear. Cf. share.
  4. from Middle English schare, schore, schere, from Anglo-Saxon scaru, scare, the pubes, from sceran (preterit scær), cut: see share, share.
  5. A variant of shear, depending partly on share, share.
 

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