victualing

Verb

victual (third-person singular simple present victuals, present participle (US) victualing or (UK) victualling, simple past and past participle (US) victualed or (UK) victualled)

1. (archaic, reflexive, transitive) To provide (military troops, a place, a ship, etc., or oneself) with a stock of victuals or food; to provision.
   • [T]hy louing voyage / Is but for two moneths victuall’d: […]c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
2. (archaic, intransitive) To lay in or procure food supplies.
   • [Letter from Sir William Drury to Sir William Cecil, 3d April 1568 (Julian calendar).] The Lord Fleming [i.e., John Fleming, 5th Lord Fleming], notwithstanding he still victualleth and maketh provision, he hath offered three personages of as great livehood as himself to enter caution and surety...1568 April 13, William Drury, “Containing Matters of State from the Earl of Moray’s Acceptation of the Regency in the Month of August 1567, till the Queen’s Retreat into England in the Month of May...
3. (archaic, intransitive) To eat.
   • I have Drank and Victual’d at Sir Humphrey’s for a Months Famine I am to endure here—I am hung round with Bottles and ſtuft full of Proviſion; will you eat a Pullet?1680, Tho[mas] Shadwell, The Woman-Captain: A Comedy […], London: […] Samuel Carr, […], →OCLC, Act II, page 20

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