victual
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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
Finally the ship had so much victual booty that an extra meal was served: afternoon coffee with bonbons.
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
Now the ships, on setting out, went first to victual at the Madeiras, because of the great supplies that were there.
From The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. I by Azurara, Gomes Eannes de
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