Meaning of VICTUAL
| Pronunciation: | | 'vitl
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- [n] any substance that can be used as food
- [v] partake of victuals; esp. of animals
- [v] feed; of domestic animals (rare usage)
- [v] lay in provisions; "The vessel victualled before the long voyage"
- [v] supply with food; "The population was victualed during the war"
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| | Synonyms: | | comestible, eatable, edible, pabulum, victuals |
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| | See Also: | | eat, feed, food, furnish, hive away, lay in, nutrient, provide, put in, render, salt away, stack away, stash away, store, supply, tuck | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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}.]
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.
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