SUTLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sutler mean? 

• SUTLER (noun)
  The noun SUTLER has 1 sense:

1. a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army

  Familiarity information: SUTLER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUTLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A supplier of victuals or supplies to an army

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

provisioner; sutler; victualer; victualler

Hypernyms ("sutler" is a kind of...):

provider; supplier (someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity)

 Context examples 

On both sides were archers, men-at-arms and knights behind, and in the centre the baggage, with my feather-bed upon a sutler's mule.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were some six thousand of us, with the prince and his knights, and the feather-bed upon a sutler's mule in the centre.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We put it on a sutler's mule, and bore it after the army.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)