VICTUALING
Verb
victualing
present participle of victual
Source: Wiktionary
Vict"ual*ing, a.
Definition: Of or pertaining to victuals, or provisions; supplying
provisions; as, a victualing ship.
VICTUAL
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