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victualling, vbl. n.|ˈvɪt(ə)lɪŋ|
Forms: (see victual v.).
[f. victual v.]
1. The action of providing or storing a ship, town, army, etc. (now esp. the Navy) with victuals.
α1462Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 313 For the vitalyng of the sayd citte. 1462Paston Lett. II. 102 My Lord Tresorer had put hym to a gret charge for the vetelyng of Mary Talbot. 1496Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 165 Certeyn vitayle & fewell bought for vitaylyng of the seid Ship. 1544Star Chamb. Cases (Selden) II. 281 His highnes proclamacion for the vittalyng of his highnes Toune of Callis. 1570B. Googe Pop. Kingd. i. E iij b, They looke to vittayling of Campes, when bloudie warres doe raigne. 1606J. Clapham Hist. Gt. Brit. ii. i. ii. 179 By attaching some of the Roman ships..they became first acquainted with their manner of vittailing.
β1509–10Act 1 Hen. VIII, c. 20 §1 Victuale goyng oute of this your said Realme for the victualyng of your Towne of Calice. 1551Sir J. Williams Accompte (Abbotsf. Cl.) 88 Towardes the victuellinge of his maiesties armyes then at Portesmouth. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 250 He commanded also the Prince..to make prouision for the victualing of his campe. 1650Nicholas Papers (Camden) 168 It was become necessary for the victualling and seting forth your fleete. 1705Lond. Gaz. No. 4091/3 His Royal Highness has..appointed..Captain Thomas Harlow to be a Commissioner of the Victualling. 1755N. Magens Ess. Insurances I. 165 The dear Victualling of the Ship in America. 1834Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VI. 339/1 A Comptroller of the Victualling of the Navy and of the Transport Service. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 390 There men might learn..how grossly the Navy Board had cheated the crown in the victualling of the fleet. 1901Whitaker's Alm. 154 Admiralty... Director of Victualling.
b. The business of supplying food and drink for payment; supply of food for this purpose.
1534in Gross Gild Merch. (1890) II. 192 It ys enacted..that no person ne persons shall..exercise eny vytelyng, bying or sellyng..wythyn the seyd Town. 1552in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. 390 A comon housse or ynne for victuallinge and lodginge of..strangers. 1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 252, I keepe no victualling, yet is my house an Inne. 1891Anthony's Photogr. Bull. IV. 309 The average return saloon fare is {pstlg}6 including very liberal victualling.
2. A supply of food for personal use.
1532Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scotl. VI. 119 To be in Edinburgh the v day of Januar with xxx dais wittaling. 1539Cromwell in Merriman Life & Lett. (1902) II. 234, I haue..delyuered vnto him money for two monethis wagies vitailling and al other thinges for that tyme necessary. a1618Sylvester Letanie 4, v, They from thee prepared had Each one his sev'rall victualling, After his kind, herb, fruit and seed. 1792N. Chipman Rep. (1871) 27 The prisoner should pay to the gaoler one shilling and sixpence per day for his victualing. 1819R. Anderson Cumbld. Ball. 112 Teyme whispert, 'twad be best, For vittelin heame to run.
3. attrib., as victualling-bill, victualling-board, victualling-book, † victualling booth, † victualling cart, † victualling cook, victualling department (also transf.), victualling dry store, victualling establishment, victualling-note, victualling place, victualling provisions, victualling service, victualling-ship, victualling-society, victualling-yard.
1745De Foe's Eng. Tradesm. vi. (1841) I. 41 From whence proceeded that black trade of buying and selling navy and *victualling-bills, and transport-debts. 1809R. Langford Introd. Trade 130 Bills victualling, bills issued by the Victualling board, bearing interest till due and paid. 1846A. Young Naut. Dict. 72 The master of any vessel outward-bound has to apply to the searcher for a victualling-bill, which is a warrant for the shipment of such stores as he may require. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Victualling-bill, a custom-house document, warranting the shipment of such bonded stores as the master of an outward-bound merchantman may require for his intended voyage.
1757W. Thompson R.N. Advoc. 13 Half an Hour after the *Victualling-Board broke up, I was sent for. 1834–6Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 380/1 The Victualling Board..consumes many hundred tons [of old hoops] annually for the service of the navy.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., *Victualling-book, a counterpart of the ship's open list, which is kept by the purser, to enable him to make the necessary entries in it.
1588Roxb. Ball. (1887) VI. 394 And *vittaling boothes in plentie were, Where they sold meate, bread, cheese, and beere.
1578Knaresb. Wills (Surtees) I. 134 One *victualling carte, a bord and a carte in the haie laith.
1568Withals Dict. 41 b/1 A *vittayling cooke.
1839Penny Cycl. XIV. 343/2 To the eastward of Valletta..are..spacious stores for the *victualling department. 1878Athletic World 31 May 99/2 Francis..led off with a clever double on the..chin. Bassano then retaliated on the victualling department [= stomach].
1757W. Thompson R.N. Advoc. 52 He was..appointed to inspect all the King's *Victualling Dry Stores. 1834*Victualling establishment [see victualling 2 b].
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Victualling-note, an order given to a seaman in the Royal navy by the paymaster, when he joins a ship, which is handed to the ship's steward as his authority for victualling the man.
1667Pepys Diary 2 Aug., Though I lay down my *victualling place, yet, as long as he continues victualler, I shall be the better by him.
1770Langhorne Plutarch (1851) II. 837/2 He..furnished himself also with cattle and other *victualling provisions.
1757W. Thompson R.N. Advoc. 20 One..had been in the *Victualling Service from a Boy.
1665Pepys Diary 28 April, Down the River to visit the *victualling-ships. 1711Broadside, Sailors Danger & Hardship at Sea (title-p.), The loss of Seven large Transports and a Victualing Ship.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Victualling-society, a union or association of operatives, &c. to supply themselves with meat and bread, &c. at the lowest prices.
1757W. Thompson R.N. Advoc. 48 The Timber..sent into Portsmouth *Victualling-yard was..complained of. 1846A. Young Naut. Dict. 105 The Victualling Yards for the Royal Navy, where provisions and similar stores are deposited. |