Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A supplier of victuals; a sutler.
  • noun Chiefly British An innkeeper.
  • noun Nautical A supply ship.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who furnishes victuals or provisions.
  • noun One who keeps a house of entertainment; a tavern-keeper.
  • noun A ship employed to carry provisions for other ships, or for supplying troops at a distance; a store-ship.
  • noun A corn-factor; one who deals in grain. Jamieson. [Scotch.]

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who furnishes victuals.
  • noun One who keeps a house of entertainment; a tavern keeper; an innkeeper.
  • noun A vessel employed to carry provisions, usually for military or naval use; a provision ship.
  • noun Scot. One who deals in grain; a corn factor.
  • noun See under Licensed.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative spelling of victualler. (A supplier of victuals or provisions)

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army
  • noun an innkeeper (especially British)

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Examples

  • Old Etonian (OE), a sublime host, had undertaken to fulfill the role of victualer.

    Cricket and the Lord's Bounty Tunku Varadarajan 2008

  • As surely as the wolf retires before cities does the fairy sequester herself from the haunts of the licensed victualer.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • His large amount of ready money -- a commodity especially scarce in those days -- soon enabled him to carry on very large commercial operations; and amongst other sources of wealth he probably derived considerable profit from his office of victualer of the navy.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

  • "I am a licensed victualer, that's what I am, and I ain't flowery," he said, in an apologetic tone; "I hain't had the chance of it, being as I'd no schooling -- but, deng me, you've just hit it!"

    A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892

  • It ran: "Paul Drayton, five feet eleven inches, brown hair and eyes, aged thirty, licensed victualer, born in London, convicted of robbery at the scene of a railway accident."

    A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892

  • I fancied it would be so delightful and Dickensy to talk quietly with a licensed victualer by the name of Martha Huggins.

    A Cathedral Courtship Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • As surely as the wolf retires before cities does the fairy sequester herself from the haunts of the licensed victualer.

    The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • Certainly, there is a good bit of the camp slop that spills over into the waiting mouths of such campaign hangers-on, and it is often far too tempting to resist, even for the reluctant (but curious) victualer hopeful.

    Dealbreaker 2009

  • Certainly, there is a good bit of the camp slop that spills over into the waiting mouths of such campaign hangers-on, and it is often far too tempting to resist, even for the reluctant (but curious) victualer hopeful.

    Dealbreaker 2009

  • The board approved a common victualer license for Cravings Cafe &

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