ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Victual

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈvɪtəl/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Victual is a noun meaning Edible plants.

Meaning

Edible plants.

Grain of any kind.
(intransitive, chiefly military, nautical) To lay in or procure food supplies.
(intransitive) To eat.
(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.
(archaic) Food fit for human (or occasionally animal) consumption.
(archaic, chiefly in the plural) Food supplies; provisions.

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

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

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

[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: [...]

Depending on context, synonyms include pabulum, comestible, victuals, edible, eatable.

Related dictionary entries include comestible, pabulum, eatable, edible, victuall, vittle.

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