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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SUT'LER, n. A person who follows an army and sells to the troops provisions and liquors.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army [syn: sutler, victualer, victualler, provisioner]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: obsolete Dutch soeteler, from Low German suteler sloppy worker, camp cook Date: 1599 a civilian provisioner to an army post often with a shop on the post

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. hist. a person following an army and selling provisions etc. to the soldiers. Etymology: obs. Du. soeteler f. soetelen befoul, perform mean duties, f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sutler Sut"ler, n. [D. zoetelaar, OD. soetelaar, a small trader, especially in camps, fr. soetelen to undertake low offices; cf. G. sudeln to do dirty work, to sully, soil, E. suds.] A person who follows an army, and sells to the troops provisions, liquors, and the like.

Moby Thesaurus

caterer, chandler, commissariat, commissary, donor, furnisher, manciple, merchant, patron, provider, provisioner, purveyor, quartermaster, retailer, steward, stock clerk, storekeeper, supplier, victualer, vivandier