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Definition of victual :
1. Food; - now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals.
2. Grain of any kind.
3. To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a ship.
Synonyms:
provisions, diet, bread, food, partake, eat, esculent, nourishment, feed, provision, refresh, provender, cater, foodstuff, comestible, eatable, sustenance, fare, aliment, viands, alimentation, ingestion, grub, meat, nurture, chow, pap, nutriment, pabulum, edible, commissariat, nutrition, eats, victuals, board
Usage examples:
- My next business was to victual her. - "The Frozen Pirate", W. Clark Russell.
- For aught I knew, there might have been fifty of you at least to victual. - "Shirley", Charlotte Brontë.
- Therewith she brought forth victual for us, and that nought evil, of flesh and bread, and cheese and cakes, and good wine withal; and we were hunger- weary as well as sorrow- weary; and hunger did at that moment overcome sorrow, so we ate and drank, and, would we, would we not, something of heart came back to us thereby. - "The Water of the Wondrous Isles", William Morris.