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▪ I. † suttle, a. Comm. Obs.|ˈsʌt(ə)l|
[Old variant spelling of subtle a. retained in a technical use. Cf. AF. pois sutil.]
Of weight, after tare, or tret, has been deducted.
In quot. 1695 quasi-n. by ellipsis.
[1502,1660: see subtile a. 12 1522, 1636: see subtle a. 12.] 1596Mellis Recorde's Gr. Artes iii. viii. 486 At 16ll the 100 suttle, what shall 895ll suttle be worth in giuing 4ll weight vppone euery 100 for treate? 1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 33 The diuision of the pound weight for wares, and the correspondence of the hundreth pound, compared to the 100 ll Suttle of Antuerp [cf. p. 22 Subtle]. 1695E. Hatton Merch. Mag. 100 In such Commodities wherein Trett is allowed, the Remainer, after the Tare is deducted is called Suttle, out of which Suttle the allowance for Trett is made. 1764C. Hutton Syst. Pract. Arith. (1766) 72 What remains after the tare is taken from the gross, may be called tare-suttle, if there be more deductions... What remains after tret is deducted, may be called tret-suttle, if there be any following deduction. 1812J. Smyth Pract. Customs (1821) 13 Suppose 20 casks of Gentian weigh 120 cwt. 2 qrs. 18 lbs. gross, how many suttle pounds will they contain?
▪ II. suttle, v. Obs. or arch.|ˈsʌt(ə)l|
Also 7–9 sutle.
[ad. early mod.Du. soetelen, or back-formation f. sutler, q.v.]
intr. To carry on the business of a sutler. Chiefly in vbl. n. suttling.
1648Hexham ii, Zoetelen, to Suttle [ed. 1678 sutle], or to Victuall. 1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 69 He [sc. a gunner] can no more abstain from suttling on board, and running Goods a-shore, than he can refrain from talking Bawdy in modest Company. 1757Washington Writ. (1889) I. 467 To prevent irregular suttling. 1787Nelson 29 Dec. in Nicolas Disp. (1845) I. 263, I have been obliged to punish him for suttling to the Ship's Company and making numbers of them drunk. 1904Athenæum 10 Sept. 339/3 Dismissed for dishonest greed—for suttling, false musters, or turning their ships into merchantmen.
b. in vbl. n. suttling used attrib., esp. in suttling-house, a house where food and drink are supplied, esp. to soldiers; also suttling booth, suttling department, suttling place, suttling shop.
1691Lond. Gaz. No. 2653/4 Mr. Creggs at the Suttling-House in the Savoy. 1710Steele & Addison Tatler No. 260 ⁋3 She came to him in the Disguise of a Suttling Wench, with a Bottle of Brandy under her Arm. 1747Gentl. Mag. Apr. 197/1 The suttling house at the Tilt Yard, Whitehall. 1777Howard Prisons Eng. iv. (1780) 110 No sutling place to be kept in this house of correction. 1809General J. Wilkinson Speech in Congress 19 June (1853) 2439, I shall make such arrangements in the sutling department as entirely to exclude the use of ardent spirits which have been the bane of the service. 1827Hone Every-day Bk. II. 111 Suttling-booths..appeared now on the Thames. 1829J. T. Smith Bk. for Rainy Day (1905) 282 We entered the parlour of the ‘Canteen’, that being the sign of the suttling-house of the Palace [Hampton Court]. 1832Sir J. Campbell Mem. I. ii. 35 He..set up a suttling-shop with the money. |