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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 vict·ual /ˈvɪtḷ/
 食物(vt.)供應儲備食物給(vi.)吃,貯藏

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Vict·ual 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.   --Knolles.
 There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand
 Bare victual for the mowers.   --Tennyson.
    Short allowance of victual.   --Longfellow.
 2. Grain of any kind.  [Scot.]

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Vict·ual v. t. [imp. & p. p. Victualed or 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.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 victual
      n : any substance that can be used as food [syn: comestible, edible,
           eatable, pabulum, victuals]
      v 1: supply with food; "The population was victualed during the
           war"
      2: lay in provisions; "The vessel victualled before the long
         voyage"
      3: take in nourishment
      [also: victualling, victualled]