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OE Will of Bp. Ælfric (Sawyer 1489) in D. Whitelock Anglo-Saxon Wills (1930) 72 Ic gean þæt fen þe Þurlac me sealde into Ælmham þa preostas to foddan [prob. read fodan].

a1300 (?OE) Writ of Edward the Confessor, Westminster (Sawyer 1128) in F. E. Harmer Anglo-Saxon Writs (1952) 350 Ic wille þæt þaet cotlif Molesham þe Leofcild..bequað Crist & Sainte Petre into Westminstre ligge nu þider in to þare munece fodan ellswa he it geuþe.

c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xviii. l. 19 Peter fysshed for hus fode and hus fere Andreu.

1548 W. Forrest Pleasaunt Poesye 287 in T. Starkey Eng. in Reign King Henry VIII (1878) i. p. xciii Whiche suche maye compell to earne their Fooade.

a1605 A. Montgomerie Sonnets (1887) xlvii He that..to mak faggots for his fuid is fane.

a1677 I. Barrow Of Industry (1693) i. 11 Every man is to work for his food, for his apparel, for all his accommodations, either immediately and directly, or by commutation and equivalence.

1727 J. Hewitt Misc. in Prose & Verse 32 Inur'd to Toil, they, sweating, earn their Food, Content to live in Pain, and ignorantly Good.

1797 Early Blossoms Genius & Virtue 120 Of two brothers, one served the king, the other toiled hard for his food.

1843 C. F. Briggs Haunted Merchant iii, in Bankrupt Stories 23 He had contrived to earn his food by selling penny papers at half profits.

1891 E. A. Allen High-top Sweeting 24 There dwelt in far Japan, Long since, a laboring man Who earned, by hammering stone, his daily food.

1918 J. Masefield Poems & Plays I. 274 Do you propose to earn your daily food?

1999 Catholic Herald 30 July 5/6 (advt.) Living on the platforms of railway stations, under bridges.., they earn their food by rag-picking, collecting paper and bottles from waste-tips or by..sweeping trains and begging.