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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Victual

/(vĭt"'l)/ · Vict·ual · IPA /ˈvɪtəl/
01 n. Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals.
  1. 1.
    Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals. See: Victuals
    “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 mowers.” — Tennyson.
    “Short allowance of victual.” — Longfellow.
  2. 2.
    Grain of any kind.[Scot.]
02 v. t. To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a ship.
imp. & p. p. Victualed; p. pr. & vb. n. Victualing
  1. 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.