- a variation of victualer.
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
For suppose you go to an ale-house with that base money, and the landlord gives you a quart for four of these half-pence, what must the victualler do?
From Political Pamphlets by George Saintsbury
Where the agent was victualler, he naturally desired to make what he could out of his contract; and hence arose frequent complaints from the seamen as to both the quantity and quality of their food.
From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Herbert Joyce
Besides these, the bark Samuel of 180 tons accompanied as a victualler to Cape Verd.--E.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr
Her bedding she had pawned with the victualler for food.
From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Florence Kelley
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