victualler
Britishnoun
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a supplier of victuals, as to an army; sutler
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a licensed purveyor of spirits; innkeeper
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a supply ship, esp one carrying foodstuffs
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It is known he was born in 1889, the son of licensed victualler Henry Haynes and his wife Elizabeth and had two brothers, Horace and James, and three sisters, Agnes, Florence and Connie.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2014
Thomas Aldherne, also a London merchant and sea captain, the chief victualler of the navy, and an enterprising adventurer in trade; Capt.
From British Committees, Commissions, and Councils of Trade and Plantations, 1622-1675 by Charles M. Andrews
The thrushes and blackbirds and wood-pigeons will find a new victualler.
From Jonah and Co. by Dornford Yates
From the writing table there is every few minutes a call to the dining rooms on the ground floor, where the author is metamorphosed into a victualler.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various
I fancied it would be delightful and Dickensy to talk quietly with a licensed victualler by the name of Martha Huggins.
From A Cathedral Courtship by C. E. (Charles Edmund) Brock
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