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- noun Plural form of
victualer .
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Examples
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Rebel victualers now deliver hot afternoon meals—and even the occasional camel for slaughter—to the front lines every day.
Libya Rebels Make Gains Near Capital Charles Levinson 2011
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And when the boates rowed from the Generall, some of them went aboord the victualers, and tooke out of them certaine fire-workes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Thursday the 19. day, we the abouesaid 16. ships were together, beside the two Spanish ships, 4 ships of war of North Holland, 4 ships of Warres of Zeland and one ship of war of the Maze: the captain wherof was Antony Leonardson, al the rest were victualers.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Her title was simply shatayan of the royal household, yet whoever believed any shatayan's influence stopped at ordering the cooks and maids and victualers made a grave error.
The Path of Daggers Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1998
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Jon-Tom reluctantly allowed Mudge to scavenge for supplies, and the travelers then beat a hasty retreat from Redrock before their unwilling victualers could awaken to the discovery of their absent inventory.
The Day of the Dissonance Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984
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This regulates the manner in which they are to be dispersed among the several innkeepers and victualers throughout the kingdom, and establishes a law martial for their government.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II Various 1887
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That I carried out of the very harbor and bay two hundred of the enemy's victualers, and reduced them to that situation that they can receive no supplies either by land or sea?
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The returnes made by the Westerne men, are commonly diuided in three parts; one for the owner of the ship; another for the Master and his Company; the third for the victualers, which course being still permitted, will be no hinderance to the Plantation as yet goe there neuer so many, but a meanes of transporting that yeerely for little or nothing, which otherwise wil cost many hundreds of pounds.
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And when the boates rowed from the Generall, some of them went aboord the victualers, and tooke out of them certaine fire-workes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Let's just cut to the chase and have both houses of Congress issue a proclamation that Mr. Bruce Buschel is a national treasure and that licensed victualers throughout the land must bow in his presence … - James E.
NYT > Home Page By BRUCE BUSCHEL 2009
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