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sutlery|ˈsʌtlərɪ|
Also 8 Sc. sutlarie, -y, suttolory.
[f. sutler + -y. Cf. early mod.Du. soetelrije ‘vile opus, sordidum artificium’, etc. (Kilian).]
1. The occupation of a sutler; victualling.
1606Marston Fawne iv. i. F iij, Has my sutlery, tapstry, laundrie, made mee be tane vpp at the Court?
2. A sutler's establishment; a victualling establishment or department, esp. for the supplying of soldiers with food and drink.
1636Davenant Wits iv. i, A new Plantation..Is made in Covent-Garden, from Sutleries Of German Camps. 1701Minute Bk. News Mills Cloth Manuf. (S.H.S.) 283 Ane order..for roupeing of the breuing looms of the sutlarie &c. Ibid. 286 The sutlary accompt. c1730Burt Lett. N. Scot. xiii. (1818) I. 252 The town [of Maryburgh]..was originally designed as a sutlery to the garrison. 1751Scott. Forfeited Estates Papers (S.H.S.) 223 A Brew Seat and Suttolory to be erected at the head quarters of the military. 1777Chron. in Ann. Reg. 206/2 A chapel, a keeper's house, taphouse, sutlery, yards [in Newgate jail]. |