Crossword clues for victualler
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Victualer \Vict"ual*er\, n. [F. victuailleur.] [Written also victualler.]
One who furnishes victuals.
One who keeps a house of entertainment; a tavern keeper; an innkeeper.
--Shak.A vessel employed to carry provisions, usually for military or naval use; a provision use; a provision ship.
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One who deals in grain; a corn factor. [Scot.]
Licensed victualer. See under Licensed.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A supplier of victuals or supplies to an army. 2 (context chiefly British English) An innkeeper. 3 (context Scotland English) One who deals in grain; a corn factor. 4 (context nautical English) A supply ship.
WordNet
n. an innkeeper (especially British) [syn: victualer]
a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army [syn: sutler, victualer, provisioner]
Wikipedia
A victualler is traditionally a person who supplies for the crew of a ship food, beverages and other provisions on a vessel at sea.
There are a number of other more particular uses of the term, such as:
- The official supplier of food to the Royal Navy in the 18th and 19th century was the Victualling Board. A victualler was a supply ship at the time.
- An alternative term for a sutler, a person who sells provisions to an army.
- A licensed victualler, a formal name for the landlord of a public house or similar licensed establishment.
- In Ireland, victualler is a term for a butcher.
Usage examples of "victualler".
For the enlightenment of those who are not so intimately acquainted with the minutiae of the municipal abattoir as this morbidminded esthete and embryo philosopher who for all his overweening bumptiousness in things scientific can scarcely distinguish an acid from an alkali prides himself on being, it should perhaps be stated that staggering bob in the vile parlance of our lowerclass licensed victuallers signifies the cookable and eatable flesh of a calf newly dropped from its mother.
By the same proclamation merchants, victuallers and handicraft-men were invited to take up their residence in the recently captured town of Harfleur, where houses would be assigned to them, and where they should enjoy the same privileges and franchises to which they had always been accustomed.
I know not by what favorable allowance of transports, victuallers, and pinnaces, our reason, or even our fancy, can be reconciled to the stupendous account of fifteen hundred vessels, which is proposed by a Byzantine historian.
Molesworth, the nervous-looking purser, was waiting by the mizzen, and Bolitho guessed that Cairns was going ashore with him to bolster his dealings with the victuallers, who, like ships' chandlers, thought more of personal profit than patriotism.
Lesser dwellings lined their route, each storey jettied out an arm's length further than the one below, homes and workshops for victuallers, cobblers, drapers and tailors and all the rest who supplied this sanctuary of wizardry with the mundane necessities of life.
I faced each of the three ladies who had previously approached me with the declaration that I was a licensed victualler, bound to serve all who might apply.
He'd picked up a rumor that the head cook was peculating, probably with the help of some of the victuallers that supplied the ship.
This was the second time since her refitting in Plymouth that she had gone through this laborious process, refilling her casks from the water-hoys, replacing the empty beef and pork barrels from the victuallers, and coaxing all the small stores she could from the itinerant slop-ship that Cornwallis had put into commission.
This was the second time since her refitting in Plymouth that she had gone through this laborious process, refilling her casks from the waterhoys, replacing the empty beef and pork barrels from the victuallers, and coaxing all the small stores she could from the itinerant slopship that Cornwallis had put into commission.
A decayed bagpipe-maker from Cumberland, now a swabber belonging to the starboard watch, helped remedy the lack of instruments, but although he and his fellow north-countrymen set up a spirited shrieking, the band would not be much of a credit to the ship until one of the victuallers brought Jack's order from the music-shop in Valetta.