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Definition of Sutler
1. Noun. A supplier of victuals or supplies to an army.
Generic synonyms: Provider, Supplier
Derivative terms: Provision, Victual, Victual
Definition of Sutler
1. n. A person who follows an army, and sells to the troops provisions, liquors, and the like.
Definition of Sutler
1. Noun. A person who follows an army, selling provisions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sutler
1. one that peddles goods to soldiers [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sutler
Literary usage of Sutler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"The count charges that sutler "did unlawfully and feloniously have in his possession
cocaine and mixtures containing cocaine with Intent then and there to ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"Thut it should be the duty of the commanding otti.x>r of each brigade, upon
receipt of a copy of the list and copy of the act, to cause one sutler for each ..."
3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"That it should be the duty of the commanding officer of each brigade, upon receipt
of a copy of the list and copy of the act, to cause one sutler for each ..."
4. The Life of Laurence Sterne by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1864)
"THE NOTED sutler. WHILE Ensign Roger is thus busy in Flanders, he falls in with
one of the great foragers or contractors, who marched with the army, ..."
5. Reminiscences of a Mosby Guerilla by John William Munson (1906)
"-1 CHAPTER XVII THE sutler MOSBY'S men had a decided weakness for Yankee sutlers,
and though few ... "A sutler at last!" And away a lot of us dashed for it, ..."
6. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1883)
"The sutler's establishment was a large wall tent, which was usually pitched on
the side of the camp furthest away from the Colonel's quarters. ..."
7. Five Years a Cavalryman: Or, Sketches of Regular Army Life on the Texas by H. H. McConnell (1889)
"The sutler, under the regulations of the old army, had many privileges; ...
First-class merchants obtained regimental sutler- ships and conducted the ..."
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