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

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

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

This information at once deranged all our plans and projects with respect to Singapore, and had we not been compelled to victual here, we should at once have set sail.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von