The Collaborative International Dictionary
Victualing \Vict"ual*ing\, a. Of or pertaining to victuals, or provisions; supplying provisions; as, a victualing ship.
Victual \Vict"ual\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Victualedor 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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of victual English)
Usage examples of "victualing".
Every type and size of vessel in all the Middle Sea was there to be seencogs, caravels, carracks, galleys and galleases, coasters of every conceivable shape and rig, all engaged in lading, preparing, arming, victualing, and manning yonder fleet your arms have just captured.
But the officers, though they dared make no open complaints, were less easily satisfied and murmured frequently among themselves of their continual state of hunger, which they thought was due to the fact that the captain and his clerk had profited by the victualing of the ship.
Fryer and Bligh were scarcely on speaking terms, owing to the master's suspicions that the captain had lined his pockets in victualing the ship.
In order to simplify the matter of our victualing, the three midshipmen readily agreed to mess with the men.
Wanjon, who himself overlooked the matter of our victualing, had provided a feast equal to the greatness of the occasion.
This will be the first decent meal I've set tooth to since Christmas, when our good Lord Admiral drove off the escorts of a Papal fleet and captured the victualing vessels intended to succor London.
Every type and size of vessel in all the Middle Sea was there to be seen— cogs, caravels, carracks, galleys and galleases, coasters of every conceivable shape and rig, all engaged in lading, preparing, arming, victualing, and manning yonder fleet your arms have just captured.