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



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