单词 | sutler |
释义 | sutler/ˈsʌtlə /noun historical A person who followed an army and sold provisions to the soldiers.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....
OriginLate 16th century: from obsolete Dutch soeteler, from soetelen 'perform mean duties'. |
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