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单词 sutler
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Definition of sutler in English:

sutler

noun ˈsʌtləˈsətlər
historical
  • A person who followed an army and sold provisions to the soldiers.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Essentially a sutler was a camp follower who sold provisions to the soldiers, part of early logistics.
    • For example, re-enactment societies may importune their members to prepare for upcoming events by ‘going to their history books’ and contacting an authorized sutler to be properly kitted out.
    • The middle section consists of two long poems about soldiers and war, the second of which gives the collection its title: a sutler was a camp-follower who sold provisions to soldiers - provisions often taken from the dead.
    • Among the sutlers ' stores captured by the Confederates at Manassas Junction (a major Union supply base) on August 26-27, 1862, were quantities of canned oysters.

Origin

Late 16th century: from obsolete Dutch soeteler, from soetelen 'perform mean duties'.

 
 

Definition of sutler in US English:

sutler

nounˈsətlərˈsətlər
historical
  • A person who followed an army and sold provisions to the soldiers.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Among the sutlers ' stores captured by the Confederates at Manassas Junction (a major Union supply base) on August 26-27, 1862, were quantities of canned oysters.
    • For example, re-enactment societies may importune their members to prepare for upcoming events by ‘going to their history books’ and contacting an authorized sutler to be properly kitted out.
    • The middle section consists of two long poems about soldiers and war, the second of which gives the collection its title: a sutler was a camp-follower who sold provisions to soldiers - provisions often taken from the dead.
    • Essentially a sutler was a camp follower who sold provisions to the soldiers, part of early logistics.

Origin

Late 16th century: from obsolete Dutch soeteler, from soetelen ‘perform mean duties’.

 
 
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