1
as in to feed
to provide food or meals for
the navy was usually equipped, clothed and victualled by the Crown
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as in to eat
to take a meal
that evening the travelers victualed sumptuously on partridge and venison
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Recent Examples of victual
Scholars long thought that the capability to construct and victual a watercraft and then navigate it to a distant coast arrived only with advent of agriculture and animal domestication.
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Andrew Lawler, Science | AAAS, 24 Apr. 2018
Andrew Lawler, Science | AAAS, 24 Apr. 2018
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Jimin’s solo smash is also back on one more Billboard ranking, which feeds into where a song lands on the Hot 100.Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
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The buffalo bellows with rage — but the peaceful hippo just feeds and sleeps.Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Dec. 2024
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Eating it: Some folks spoon directly into their mouths.Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 19 July 2017
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New this year to True Nature is a retreat for those with eating disorders and their family members.Plain Dealer guest writer, cleveland.com, 19 July 2017
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Jeffrey Freeman, his wife, and their two girls were sitting comfortably and ready for take-off when the pilot announced there'd be a delay while two VIP guests boarded.Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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About a third of Southwest's seats will be premium, and premium passengers will be among the first to board the plane.Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 17 Dec. 2024
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The following month, while dining with her husband Paul Finck, 60, in a California restaurant, a waiter accidentally fell into her, breaking one of her ribs in her back.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
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To dine last minute at the Polo Bar, one of New York’s toughest reservations, someone could offer up more than six hundred dollars and pray.Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2024
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Shopping at the popular membership-only grocery store Costco is a smart way to save money while provisioning your kitchen with high-protein goods.Jillian Kubala, Health, 25 Nov. 2024
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This model also works well in a flexible setting such as the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, where nodes can be provisioned for an application as needed, on the fly, and leased on a per-hour basis.Michael C. Schatz, IEEE Spectrum, 27 June 2013
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“Victual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/victual. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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