victual Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun any substance that can be used as food
    edible; pabulum; victuals; comestible; eatable.
  2. verb supply with food
    • The population was victualed during the war
  3. verb lay in provisions
    • The vessel victualled before the long voyage
  4. verb take in nourishment

WordNet

Vict"ual noun
Definitions
  1. Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals. 2 Chron. xi. 23. Shak.
    He was not able to keep that place three days for lack of victual. Knolles.
    There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand Bare victual for the movers. Tennyson.
    Short allowance of victual. Longfellow.
  2. Grain of any kind. Scot. Jamieson.
Vict"ual transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Victualed or Victualled; present participle & verbal noun Victualing or Victualling
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913