Victual /(vĭt"'l)/

Vict·ual

Victual

n.
  1. Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals.
    He was not able to keep that place three days for lack of victual.
    There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand Bare victual for the mowers.
    Short allowance of victual.
  2. Grain of any kind. [Scot.]

Victual

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Victualed; p. pr. & vb. n. Victualing

  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.