to find one's self

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

To provide for one's self. When a laborer engages to provide himself with victuals, he is said to find himself, or to receive day wages.--Craven Glossary.


In the advertisements of our steamboats and ships, it is stated that passengers are taken for so much and found, that is, provided with their meals.

The singing master's proposals were to keep twenty evenings for twenty dollars and found or for thirty and find himself.--Maj. Downing, p. 109.

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