victual

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Food fit for human (or occasionally animal) consumption.

   “Shift bore (for il aire) as best ye do thinke, / and twise a day giue him fresh vittle and drinke: […]”

2. isim Food supplies; provisions.

   “It is good to make prouiſion, for peraduenture wee ſhall lacke victuals and wee lie in campe on Blacke Heath long.”

3. isim Edible plants.
4. isim Grain of any kind.

   “But if the beast and branks be spar'd / Till kye be gaun without the herd, / An' a' the vittel in the yard, / An' theckit right, / I mean your ingle-side to guard / Ae winter night.”

5. fiil 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: […]”

6. fiil To lay in or procure food supplies.

   “A letter from Lt.-Gen. [John] Burgoyne to Maj.-Gen. [William] Heath, Jan. 24. 1778. […] [T]he fleet was fully victualled for four months, for the whole of the land-army and ſeamen.”

7. fiil 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?”