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victual

[vit-l] / ˈvɪt l /
NOUN
comestible
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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.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 24, 2018

In 1592, Hideyoshi, founder of the navy, used his ships to land troops in Korea, to victual their beachheads.

From Time Magazine Archive

Preachments against war have come to savor strongly of zwieback, a victual which most people can take or leave at will.

From Time Magazine Archive

Finally the ship had so much victual booty that an extra meal was served: afternoon coffee with bonbons.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had begun by sacking a town to victual their fleet, they now proposed to storm a fort to obtain a guide—St. Catherine's batteries, if resolutely manned, being able to beat off three such fleets.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter