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victual🔊

(archaic) Food fit for human (or occasionally animal) consumption.

💬 Quotations
You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it; he is a very valiant trencher-man; he hath an excellent stomach.

Food supplies; provisions.

(obsolete) Edible plants.

(obsolete, Scotland) Grain of any kind.

(chiefly military, nautical) To provide (military troops, a place, a ship, etc., or oneself) with a stock of victuals or food; to provision.

(chiefly military, nautical) To lay in or procure food supplies.

To eat.