vittle

"With sech a pack o 'chill'n ter vittle ez we-uns hev got at our house," he muttered.

Down the Ravine Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

Maunder, 'here John assumed his full historical key,' him wi 'the pot to his vittle-place; and Sir Richard Blewitt shaking over the zaddle, and

Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

- "But you should go to your mountain, or you will get no vittle."

Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies Matthew Gregory 1845

A thought it were Scriptur 'as he said, but a'd needed a' my strength just then for t 'lift t' pot off t 'fire -- it were t' first vittle a'd tasted sin 'morn, for t' famine comes down like stones on t 'head o' us poor folk: an 'a' a said were just "Coom along, chap, an 'fa' to; an 'God's blessing be on him as eats most."

Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

'Let alone, let alone,' said he; 'pigs' vittle takes noan such dainty carryin 'as milk.

Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

If a were up to t 'use o' words, a could say a mighty deal; but somehow a'm tongue-teed when a come to want my words most, so a'll only just mak 'bold t' say as a think yo've done pretty well for yo'rsel ', getten a house-full o' furniture '(looking around him as he said this),' an 'vittle an' clothin 'for t' axing, belike, an 'a home for t' missus in her time

Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

They've been after t 'winders, and after t' vittle, and after t 'very saut to 't; it's dearer by hauf an' more nor it were when a were a boy: they're a meddlesome set o 'folks, law-makers is, an' a'll niver believe King George has ought t 'do wi' 't.

Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

'Let alone, let alone,' said he; 'pigs' vittle takes noan such dainty carryin 'as milk.

Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 2 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

He pays me aforehand; an 'he pays me down for whativer a've getten for him; but that's but little; he's noane up t' his vittle, though a've made him some broth as good as a could make 'em.'

Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

'Yo' niver seed more vittle brought together i 'Newcassel, I'll be bound; there'll be above half a hundredweight o' butcher's meat, beside pies and custards.

Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837