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Meanings of victual in English

Portuguese
alimento
Catalan
queviures

Any substance that can be used as food.

        alimento
        Usage of victual in English
        1
        Therewith he drew victual from out a locker and they fell to.
        The Story of the Glittering Plain / Which Has Been Also Called t...
        2
        But as to victual, I wot not save that we have none.
        The Well at the World's End: A Tale
        3
        You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it.
        Much Ado about Nothing
        4
        Bring it in plenty, for we must victual our boat.
        When the World Shook / Being an Account of the Great Adventure o...
        5
        They French chaps are so wasteful always, and always grumbling at good English victual.
        Springhaven: A Tale of the Great War
        6
        Ho, what good victual men found lying in the ashes!
        The Nibelungenlied
        7
        I can follow; or wait for the grooms or the scullions with the victual carts.
        Beatrix of Clare
        8
        With them rode Siegfried in lordly guise; many kinds of victual did they take along.
        The Nibelungenlied
        9
        On the morrow great was the feast, and the victual was dight and they ate.
        Old French Romances, Done into English
        10
        When the cell is finished, the Bee at once sets to work to victual it.
        The Mason-Bees
        11
        There then certain women brought victual and drink to them, and served the strangers first.
        The Well at the World's End: A Tale
        12
        The King raised a great army to victual Landresy.
        The Harvard Classics Volume 38 / Scientific Papers (Physiology, ...
        13
        The sheep chews too fast to enjoy his victual.
        The Fiend's Delight
        14
        But after being besieged those three years they ran short of victual, and were taken.
        The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1
        15
        They're a deal quieter after they've had their victual.
        Cousin Phillis
        16
        Dis year in de camp, and too much victual!
        Army Life in a Black Regiment
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        Portuguese
        alimento
        Victual through the time
        Victual across language varieties
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