pantryman

[ pan-tree-muhn ]

noun,plural pan·try·men.
  1. a person who works in or has charge of a pantry, as aboard ship or in a hospital.

Origin of pantryman

1
First recorded in 1555–65; pantry + -man

Words Nearby pantryman

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How to use pantryman in a sentence

  • He was uneasy in his borrowed clothes—he had surrendered his own garments to a pantryman who had volunteered to dry them.

    Blow The Man Down | Holman Day
  • If the customers complains that the fork got on it a piece Bismarck herring, that is from the pantryman a Schuld.

    The Competitive Nephew | Montague Glass
  • When the gaoler reproved him for his tricks, he would call him the hangmans pantryman, and general storekeeper of sin.

  • It was in a swell hotel run by an Englishman and Billy was installed as pantryman.