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noun

Victualer n. (Written also victualler)

One who furnishes victuals.

One who keeps a house of entertainment; a tavern keeper; an innkeeper.

A vessel employed to carry provisions, usually for military or naval use; a provision ship.

One who deals in grain; a corn factor. (Scot.)

Licensed victualer. See under Licensed.

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Etymology of 'Victualer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Victualer" Quotes from Famous Books

... the mill; subvention &c (aid) 707; resources &c (means) 632; groceries, grocery. providing &c v.; purveyance; reinforcement, reenforcement^; commissariat. provender &c (food) 298; ensilage; viaticum. caterer, purveyor, commissary, quartermaster, manciple^, feeder, batman, victualer, grocer, comprador [Sp.], restaurateur; jackal, pelican; sutler &c (merchant) 797 [Obs.]. grocery shop, grocery store. V. provide; make provision, make due provision for; lay in, lay in a stock, lay in a store. supply, suppeditate^; furnish; find, find one in; ...

— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... prouident respect he had of poore soldiers, that whereas the vastitie of that place (which afforded them no indifferent supplie of drinke or of victuals) might humble them to some extremity, and so weaken their hands, he vouchsafed in his own person to be a victualer to the campe (a rare example of magnificence & honorable curtesie) and diligently prouided, that without farre trauel, euery man might for his money haue syder and cheese his bellyfull, nor did he sell ...

— The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton - With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse • Thomas Nash