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as in to feed
to provide food or meals for
the navy was usually equipped, clothed and victualled by the Crown
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as in to eat
to take a meal
that evening the travelers victualed sumptuously on partridge and venison
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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.
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Andrew Lawler, Science | AAAS, 24 Apr. 2018
Andrew Lawler, Science | AAAS, 24 Apr. 2018
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“Victual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/victual. Accessed 24 Oct. 2024.
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