Definition of victualing:
(v) :
(intransitive) To eat.
(v) :
(transitive, reflexive, chiefly military, nautical) To provide (military troops, a place, a ship, etc., or oneself) with a stock of victuals or food; to provision.
(v) :
(intransitive, chiefly military, nautical) To lay in or procure food supplies.
(n) :
(archaic) Food fit for human (or occasionally animal) consumption.
(n) :
(archaic, chiefly in the plural) Food supplies; provisions.
(n) :
(specifically, obsolete) Edible plants.