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