The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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v. supply with food; "The population was victualed during the war"
lay in provisions; "The vessel victualled before the long voyage"
take in nourishment
[also: victualling, victualled]
n. any substance that can be used as food [syn: comestible, edible, eatable, pabulum, victuals]
[also: victualling, victualled]
See victual
Usage examples of "victualled".
Nelson, therefore, whose orders were perfectly clear and explicit, withdrew the whole naval establishment from that station, leaving the transports victualled, and so arranged that all the troops and stores could be embarked in three days.
Right so Merlin passed the sea, well victualled both by water and by land.
Pray have her victualled and stored, with masts stepped, before the first dog.
For days now Tom had been growing more and more worried, with the Doctor away and the Reverend coming every night for news of the Captain, clearly anxious, clearly aware that something ugly was up, bringing the sick back, advising him to close with the men bargaining for the prizes, to get the barky out of the yard, watered, victualled and ready to weigh, all shore-leave stopped.
Then she was launched again and victualled and watered as full as she could hold - that is to say for twenty-eight days.
About two o’clock in the afternoon, well victualled and watered (though they thought they would need neither food nor drink) and with Reepicheep’s coracle on board, the boat pulled away from the Dawn Treader to row through the endless carpet of lilies.
About two o'clock in the afternoon, well victualled and watered (though they thought they would need neither food nor drink) and with Reepicheep's coracle on board, the boat pulled away from the Dawn Treader to row through the endless carpet of lilies.
Leslie and Sally, however, were infected by our enthusiasm and they victualled the expedition with sufficient food and drink to keep an army bloated and drunk for a week.