Pres

I like quarters, though you can skip this step by buying pres-sliced and I won't tell.

But still more curiously, Jean de Meun here rimes nombre, pres. sing.

He know it all bery well fo' de Yankee Pres'dent fo' to say he wus free.

Ains les laissant en paix comme ministres de l'utilit commune, et pres nourriciers des autres estats.

Jadis nos pres n'avoient qu'un unique chauffoir, qui toit commun toute une famille, et quelquefois plusieurs.

The fact that the pres. indicative is dar, with a different vowel, has nothing to do with the passage in question.