sutlern.
/ˈsʌtlə/, U.S. /ˈsətlər/ a. One who follows an army or lives in a garrison town and sells provisions to the soldiers.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > others concerned with military affairs > [noun] > sutler
purveyorc1425
clerk of the victualsc1570
sutler1590
victualler1591
vivandier1591
provanta1625
the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > supplying food or catering > supplying to soldiers > one who
victuallerc1380
clerk of the victualsc1570
sutler1590
vivandier1591
provanta1625
1590 Ordonances & Instr. Musters 31 Dec. 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.
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 10 Sutlers booths and tabernacles.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V ii. i. 106 I shall Sutler be Vnto the Campe, and profit will occrue.
1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher King & No King (new ed.) iv. 50 A dry Sonnet of my Corporals To an old Sutlers wife.
1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 60 A few poore Sutlers with the Campe that went.
1645 R. Harwood Loyall Subiects Retiring-roome 14 Sucklers to your Army.
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V cclxviii, in Poems (1878) IV. 168 Hee..Knocks off the Subtler's tally with a Crowne.
1701 London Gaz. No. 3714/4 Mr. Wollaston, Suttler, at the Horse-Guards.
1714 M. Prior Viceroy xiii The suttlers too he did ordain For licences should pay.
1775 R. Montgomery in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (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.
1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders 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.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond III. v. 134 An honest little Irish lieutenant..who owed so much money to a camp suttler, that [etc.].
1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 517/2 Even the licensed sutlers, who follow the autumn manœuvres, are under the Mutiny Act.
1889 Times (Weekly ed.) 7 June 5/4 Elshe van Aggelin..a sutler with the Dutch at the battle of Waterloo.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > supplying food or catering > supplier of food or caterer
purveyor1340
victualler1377
caterc1400
purveyoressc1400
achatourc1405
acaterc1415
providerc1485
provenderc1530
meatsman1567
caterer1592
proveditor1592
viander1598
foregoer1601
meat-man1614
prog man1618
provedore1631
provisioner1633
meater1643
opsonator1656
sutler1710
society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions
victualler1377
grocer1465
chandler1583
viander1598
sutler1710
provision man1859
1710 Brit. Apollo 3–5 July He came to a Sutlers to Dine.
c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 304 Houses for Suttlers for to provide for the servants.
1793 Earl of Dundonald Descr. Estate Culross 55 Many of the Scots Owners of Collieries acting as Sutlers, and supplying their workmen..with Oatmeal.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > petty thief or pilferer > [noun]
mitcher?c1225
nimmera1325
pilferer1350
truffer1485
lurcher1528
picker1549
filcher1557
purloiner1557
prig1567
prigger1567
prigman1567
fingerer1575
piker1590
prag1592
nibbler1598
lurch-man1603
petty larcener1640
budge1673
catch-cloaka1679
prigster1682
sutler1699
marauder1764
snib1823
chicken thief1840
lurker1841
souvenir hunter1862
robberling1865
jackdaw1887
miker1890
frisker1892
bower-bird1926
jagoff1931
magpie1944
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1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Sutler, he that Pockets up, Gloves, Knives, Handkerchiefs, Snuff and Tobacco-boxes, and all the lesser Moveables.
Derivatives
Hence (all rare)
ˈsutlerage n. = sutlery n.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > supplying food or catering
vitaillement1453
victualling1534
sutlery1606
opsonation1623
catering1820
food service1847
sutlerage1854
sutlership1864
1854 Bentley's Misc. Oct. 323 The slaughterage, the sutlerage, and the sewerage.
ˈsutleress n. a female sutler.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > supplying food or catering > supplier of food or caterer > official or superintendent of food > female
cateress1637
sutleress1747
provisioneress1885
1747 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 571/1 To these must be added the sutleresses.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. iv. ii. 309 (stage direct.) [Speedbooty] sutleress fawning upon him.
ˈsutlership n. the office or occupation of a sutler.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > supplying food or catering
vitaillement1453
victualling1534
sutlery1606
opsonation1623
catering1820
food service1847
sutlerage1854
sutlership1864
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Sutlership.
1889 Harper's Mag. July 178/2 Improper conduct in the disposal of a sutlership or post-tradership in the army.
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