What's the difference between victual and victualler?

Victual


Definition:

  • (n.) Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals.
  • (n.) Grain of any kind.
  • (v. t.) To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a ship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He became chair of the Society of Licensed Victuallers, recognised for his fundraising work.
  • (2) The claim for a zero tolerance for victuals and ready-to-use baby foods is corroborated.
  • (3) A hypothesis is framed about which any influences of the nutrition may cause variations of the cranium, but concerning physiological data, kinds of nutrition and special victuals' ingredients cannot still be mentioned.
  • (4) West and east Indian trade founded merchant dynasties, but also created a hinterland of ship builders, outfitters, victuallers, warehousemen, carriers and wholesalers.
  • (5) Data were collected from the stores accounts of six ships over a period of 32,354 man-victualling-days.
  • (6) In 1849 C. D. Schroff established therein the Institute for Experimental Pharmacology of Vienna University and around 1864 A. E. Vogl began his outstanding microscopic investigations of pharmacologically relevant plants and of victuals.

Victualler


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He became chair of the Society of Licensed Victuallers, recognised for his fundraising work.
  • (2) The claim for a zero tolerance for victuals and ready-to-use baby foods is corroborated.
  • (3) A hypothesis is framed about which any influences of the nutrition may cause variations of the cranium, but concerning physiological data, kinds of nutrition and special victuals' ingredients cannot still be mentioned.
  • (4) West and east Indian trade founded merchant dynasties, but also created a hinterland of ship builders, outfitters, victuallers, warehousemen, carriers and wholesalers.
  • (5) Data were collected from the stores accounts of six ships over a period of 32,354 man-victualling-days.
  • (6) In 1849 C. D. Schroff established therein the Institute for Experimental Pharmacology of Vienna University and around 1864 A. E. Vogl began his outstanding microscopic investigations of pharmacologically relevant plants and of victuals.