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sutler|ˈsʌtlə(r)|
Also (7 subtler, suckler, shuttler, sutteler), 7–9 suttler.
[a. early mod.Du. soeteler (mod.Du. zoetelaar) small vendor, petty tradesman, victualler, soldier's servant, drudge, sutler in an army (= MLG. sut(t)eler, sudeler), f. soetelen to befoul, to perform mean duties, follow a mean or low occupation or trade (cf. LG. suddeln, early mod.G. sudeln to sully: see suddle).]
One who follows an army or lives in a garrison town and sells provisions to the soldiers.
1590(Dec. 31) Ordonances & Instr. Musters, The Provost Mareschal and Sergeant Maior of euery garrison shal keepe a perfect rolle of all such English victuallers (called in dutch Sutlers) petimarchants,..and other loose persons of the English nation. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe C j b, Sutlers booths and tabernacles. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, ii. i. 116, I shal Sutler be vnto the Campe, and profits will accrue. 1611Beaum. & Fl. King & No K. iv, A dry sonnet of my Corporals To an old Suttlers wife. 1627Drayton Agincourt ccxc, A few poore Sutlers with the Campe that went. 1645Harwood Loyal Subj. Retiring-room 14 Sucklers to your Army. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V, cclxviii, Hee..Knocks off the Subtler's tally with a Crowne. 1701Lond. Gaz. No. 3714/4 Mr. Wollaston, Suttler, at the Horse-Guards. 1714Prior Viceroy xiii, The suttlers too he did ordain For licences should pay. 1775R. Montgomery in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) I. 498 If they can send down to the army such articles as soldiers choose to lay out their money upon, employing sutlers for that purpose. 1844Regul. & Ord. Army 267 No huts are to be allowed in front of, or between the intervals of the Battalions; their proper situation is in the rear of the line of petty sutlers. 1852Thackeray Esmond iii. v, An honest little Irish lieutenant..who owed so much money to a camp sutler, that [etc.]. 1877Encycl. Brit. VI. 517/2 Even the licensed sutlers, who follow the autumn manœuvres, are under the Mutiny Act. 1889Times (weekly ed.) 7 June 5/4 Elshe van Aggelin..a sutler with the Dutch at the battle of Waterloo.
fig.1827Hare Guesses Ser. ii. (1873) 302 The sutlers and pioneers..who attend the march of intellect.
†b. gen. One who furnishes provisions. Obs.
1710Brit. Apollo III. No. 43. 3/1 He came to a Sutlers to Dine. c1710C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 304 Houses for Suttlers for to provide for the servants. 1793[Earl Dundonald] Descr. Estate of Culross 55 Many of the Scots Owners of Collieries acting as Sutlers, and supplying their workmen..with Oatmeal.
†c. slang. (See quot.) Obs.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Sutler, he that Pockets up, Gloves, Knives, Handkerchiefs, Snuff and Tobacco-boxes, and all the lesser Moveables.
Hence (all rare) ˈsutlerage = sutlery; ˈsutleress, a female sutler; ˈsutlership, the office or occupation of a sutler.
1854Bentley's Misc. Oct. 323 The slaughterage, the *sutlerage, and the sewerage.
1747Gentl. Mag. Dec. 571/1 To these must be added the *sutleresses. 1871B. Taylor Faust II. iv. ii. 308 Speedbooty (sutleress fawning upon him).
1864Webster, *Sutlership. 1889Harper's Mag. July 178/2 Improper conduct in the disposal of a sutlership or post-tradership in the army. |