Definition of: victual

(vit′l) noun
1. plural Food for human beings, as prepared for eating: except in dialect, seldom used in any but a humorous or depreciatory sense: also spelled vittles.
2. Obs. Provisions of any kind. See synonyms under FOOD.
—v. ·ualed or ·ualled, ·ual·ing or ·ual·lng v.t.
1. To furnish with victuals.
—v.i.
2. To lay in supplies of food.
3. Rare To eat; feed. [<OF vitaile <LL victualia provisions, neut. plural of L victualis of food <victus food]