victual
noun
victuals, food supplies; provisions.
have victualled
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present perfectof victual.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Thanks to your exertions, we have victualled and watered: and, surely, watering at the Fountain of Arethusa, we must have victory!
From The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 by James Harrison
He wrote to Sir William and Lady Hamilton: Thanks to your exertions we have victualled and watered; and surely, having watered at the fountain of Arethusa we must have victory.
From Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions by Henry Festing Jones
Indeed almost without any exertion, farther than that of loading and firing our guns, we came into possession of beef enough to have victualled an army.
From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Mayne Reid
