Victual

/ˈvɪtəl/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic) Food fit for human (or occasionally animal) consumption.
2. (archaic, chiefly in the plural) Food supplies; provisions.
3. Edible plants.
4. Grain of any kind.
5. (transitive, reflexive, chiefly military, nautical) To provide (military troops, a place, a ship, etc., or oneself) with a stock of victuals or food; to provision.
6. (intransitive, chiefly military, nautical) To lay in or procure food supplies.
7. (intransitive) To eat.

Example Sentences

Shift bore (for il aire) as best ye do thinke, / and twise a day giue him fresh vittle and drinke: […]

[T]hough the Cameleon Loue can feed on the ayre, I am one that am nouriſh'd by my victuals; and would faine have meate: [...]

[T]he Making of Things Inalimentall, to become Alimentall, may be an Experiment of great Profit, for Making new Victuall.

For as the Teeth in Beasts of Prey / Are Swords, with which they fight in Fray. / So Swords in Men of War, are Teeth, / Which they do eat their Vittle with.

Friday told me, ſuch a Boat would do very well, and would carry much enough Vittle, Drink, Bread, that was his Way of Talking.

I must confess your wine and vittle / I was too hard upon a little: / Your table neat, your linen fine; / And though in miniature, you shine: […]

He [Samuel Keimer] was usually a great glutton, and I promised myself some diversion in half starving him. He agreed to try the practice, if I would keep him company. I did so, and we held it for three months. We had our victuals dress'd, and brought to us regularly by a woman in the neighborhood, who had from me a list of forty dishes, to be prepar'd for us at different times, in all which there was neither fish, flesh, nor fowl, and the whim suited me the better at this time from the cheapness of it, not costing us above eighteen pence sterling each per week.

Robin promis'd me / A' my winter vittle; / Fient haet he had but three / Goos feathers and whittle.

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• victuals
• victuall
• vittle
• victualing
• victualling
• victualed
• victualled
• no-table-tags
• glossary
• victual
• victuallest
• victualleth
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