victualling-office

victualling-office (plural victualling-offices)

1. (archaic, humorous, slang) Synonym of breadbasket (“the abdomen or stomach, especially as a vulnerable part of the body in an attack”)
   • 1818, Pierce Egan, Boxiana; or, Sketches of Antient and Modern Pugilism, page 292:

     His strength and stamina were doubted; he was a youth of not more than 19 years of age, nearly six feet high, 12 stone in weight, but thought to have more gristle than bone: his victualling office had also been some time out of commission; […]

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary