Definition/Meaning of victual

• English - Noun: victual ( plural victuals ) Food fit for human consumption . Knolles He was not able to keep that place three days for lack of victual . Tennyson There came a fair-hair'd youth , that in his hand / Bare victual for the movers . ( Scotland ) grain of any kind
• English - Verb: victual ( third-person singular simple present victuals , present participle victualing or victualling , simple past and past participle victualed or victualled ) ( transitive ) To provide with food; to provision . ( intransitive ) To lay in food supplies . ( intransitive ) To eat .
• English - Alternative forms: victuall ( obsolete )
• English - Etymology: Middle English vitaylle , from Anglo-Norman and Old French vitaille , from Late Latin victualia ( “ provisions ” ), from victus ( “ nourishment ” ), from vīvō ( “ live , survive ” ).
• English - Pronunciation: IPA (key) : /ˈvɪtəl/ Rhymes: -ɪtəl