VICTUAL
comestible, edible, eatable, pabulum, victual, victuals
(noun) any substance that can be used as food
victual
(verb) take in nourishment
victual
(verb) lay in provisions; “The vessel victualled before the long voyage”
victual
(verb) supply with food; “The population was victualed during the war”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
victual (plural victuals)
(archaic) Food fit for human consumption.
(archaic, in the plural) Food supplies; provisions.
(Scotland) Grain of any kind.
Verb
victual (third-person singular simple present victuals, present participle victualling or victualing, simple past and past participle victualled or victualed)
(transitive, especially nautical, military) To provide with food; to provision.
(intransitive, especially nautical, military) To lay in food supplies.
(intransitive) To eat.
Source: Wiktionary
Vict"ual, n.
1. Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals. 2 Chron.
xi. 23. Shak.
He was not able to keep that place three days for lack of victual.
Knolles.
There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand Bare victual for the
movers. Tennyson.
Short allowance of victual. Longfellow.
2. Grain of any kind. [Scot.] Jamieson.
Vict"ual, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Victualed or Victualled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Victualing or Victualling.]
Definition: To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with
food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a
ship.
I must go victual Orleans forthwith. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition