Definitions

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  • noun A supplier of victuals or supplies to an army.
  • noun chiefly UK An innkeeper.
  • noun nautical A supply ship.

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

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Examples

  • They cannot now grant a license for sale of liquor to be drunk on the prem - ises except to a common victualler, that is, to one who conducts also the business of furnishing food.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • Henry Stobbs was "victualler" at the Sun Inn in 1886, followed by Frederick Benson.

    HX News and Sport 2009

  • He ordered his victualler to send bread to the poor at Moorfields and proclaimed a day of fasting next month, whereby appointed men will go about to collect money for those suffering.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • He ordered his victualler to send bread to the poor at Moorfields and proclaimed a day of fasting next month, whereby appointed men will go about to collect money for those suffering.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • By then, Garvice, his occupation described as bookseller, was living with his uncle Joseph Winter a retired licensed victualler at 11 The Terrace, Woodford, Essex.

    Charles Garvice Steve 2010

  • Two days later, the Victualling Board wrote again to report that Henry Garrett, the agent victualler at Deptford, who had checked at high tide, reported that the water was now damaging the boundary wall between the victualling and dock yards, this being exacerbated by rat runs to the pea store and flesh cellars and between the seasoning house and the old cooperage, the water rising over the floor sufficiently to stop the coopers working.

    Thanks to Janet Macdonald-and the Deptford Victualling Yard M 2008

  • Two days later, the Victualling Board wrote again to report that Henry Garrett, the agent victualler at Deptford, who had checked at high tide, reported that the water was now damaging the boundary wall between the victualling and dock yards, this being exacerbated by rat runs to the pea store and flesh cellars and between the seasoning house and the old cooperage, the water rising over the floor sufficiently to stop the coopers working.

    Archive 2008-10-01 M 2008

  • He was prominent in town affairs, held various offices, and between 1747 and 1752 was licensed as "Innholder, taverner, and common victualler of strong liquor by retail."

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

  • Fitzjames, on the other hand, had always had his doubts about the canned goods and the victualler who had canned them — the only member of the Expedition or the Admiralty who seems to have expressed such reservations — but Crozier remained incredulous that such an act of criminal fraud could have been carried out on ships of the Royal Navy.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • Good God, man, exploded Crozier, every victualler does that to the Admiralty.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

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