sutler
- n a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army
- When he cried, his nursery maid, a former sutler, used to bellow at him: "Silence in the company!" When he went out to play, the family gardener fired the young Paul's .
- Adam's foot keeps him out of the fighting, so he works for a sutler selling provisions to Union troops, and eventually fetches up on the fringes of the Battle of the Wilderness .
- When he cried, his nursery maid, a former sutler, used to bellow at him: "Silence in the company!" When he went out to play, the family gardener fired the young Paul's .