(a) Provisions, stores; household goods; ?also, the act or process of provisioning a fortress [quot. 1438]; (b) material used as padding, stuffing; (c) cook. a mixture of ground meat or eggs, spices……
A derivational suffix occurring in many ME nouns, usu. derived from L or OF/AF. In L -ūra was usu. added to p.ppl. stems of verbs, and sometimes to other verbal stems, to form nouns denoting primarily……
