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