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- noun Plural form of
quartermaster .
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Examples
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It had on the point a strawberry mark, and a fragment of one of those old-fashioned woven wire gray shirts, such as quartermasters used to wear.
Remarks Bill Nye 1873
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But the load was so immense that the Macedonian quartermasters had to send for thousands of mules and camels from Mesopotamia to bear the treasure.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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But the load was so immense that the Macedonian quartermasters had to send for thousands of mules and camels from Mesopotamia to bear the treasure.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Her chosen nursery was the wheel - house, and Captain Duncan had humoured her, giving her a box for her kittens and threatening the quartermasters with all manner of dire fates did they so much as step on one of the kittens.
CHAPTER VI 2010
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Many people also think that blacks only served as cooks, quartermasters, truck drivers, orderlies and the like.
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His satirical skewering of Republicans and Democrats alike have whizzed over the heads of feeble-minded politicians -- Republicans clambering to be be on his show or praise his rhetoric during the early days, while Democrats were ordered by their quartermasters not to give him the time of day.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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But the load was so immense that the Macedonian quartermasters had to send for thousands of mules and camels from Mesopotamia to bear the treasure.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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His satirical skewering of Republicans and Democrats alike have whizzed over the heads of feeble-minded politicians -- Republicans clambering to be be on his show or praise his rhetoric during the early days, while Democrats were ordered by their quartermasters not to give him the time of day.
Rabid Reads: "I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert 2009
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No longer would the government be liable for transporting supplies from state to state, for the spoilage of goods that could not be moved, for the salaries of the commissariat and the quartermasters, or for the premiums paid by government agents when bidding for supplies.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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This commercial class was matched by an equal proliferation of government functionaries, described by the Pelatiah Webster as “commissioners, quartermasters, purchasers . . . multiplied offices of so many different names that one has need of a dictionary to understand them.”
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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