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.
Wiktionary
alt. (present participle of victual English) vb. (present participle of victual English)
WordNet
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 "victualling".
In March the mayor, Henry Barton, was made a commissioner for victualling the navy which was to rendezvous at Southampton.
Afterwards for provisions and victualling they draw out of the same common stock about 200 pieces of eight.
In the meanwhile he gave orders for so much rice and maize to be collected thereabouts as was necessary for the victualling all his ships.
Captain Aubrey suggested to the Supreme Director that the right and natural place for all these things was Valparaiso, to be conveyed in the Surprise as far as the chests were concerned, while the huge accumulation of marine stores lying outside the magazines, lofts and victualling buildings should travel in the two large smacks lying just beyond the frigate outside the mole.
Admiralty down on him like a hundred of bricks, but also the Navy Office, the Transport Board, the Victualling Office, the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, the Home Office, and no doubt half a dozen other bodies, each better than the last at calling for accounts, dockets and vouchers, at handing down reprimands, at holding officers liable for extraordinary sums, and at involving them in endless official correspondence.
No, my chief concern is victualling, victualling for what may be quite a long voyage, since I have no instruments.
There was not only the lengthening but the re-rigging, the caulking, the victualling and a thousand other things.