<verb.possession> The population was victualed during the war
lay in provisions
<verb.possession> The vessel victualled before the long voyage
take in nourishment
<verb.consumption>
Victual \Vict"ual\, n. 1. Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See {Victuals}. --2 Chron. xi. 23. Shak.
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 movers. --Tennyson.
Short allowance of victual. --Longfellow.
2. Grain of any kind. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
Victual \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.