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VICTUALLING
VICTUAL
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
Verb
victualling
present participle of victual
Noun
victualling (uncountable)
(especially nautical, military) The process of supplying food.
(especially nautical, military) Provisions of food.
Source: Wiktionary
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
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