1. A substance that provides nourishment for growth or metabolism
   "The hikers packed enough vittles to last for their week-long trek";
   - nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment [archaic], victuals

1. Any substance that can be used as food
   "The pantry was stocked with various vittles for the winter";
   - comestible, edible, eatable, pabulum [rare], victual

1. Lay in provisions
   "The family vittled up for the winter";
   - victual
    
2. Supply with food
   "The army vittled its troops well";
   - victual
    
3. Take in nourishment
   "The crew vittled before the long voyage";
   - victual

Type of: eat, food, furnish, hive away, lay in, nutrient, offer, provide, put in, render, salt away, stack away, stash away, store, supply

Encyclopedia: Vittles