proviant mastern. [compare Dutch proviandmeester (1647), Middle Low German prōviantmēster (late16th or 17th cent.), German Proviantmeister (1556), Swedish proviant-mästare (1545); compare earlier provant mastern.] Obsolete an officer in charge of a commissariat; a supplier of provisions in a regiment; = provant mastern.
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1627Prouiant Master [see main sense].
1645 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1870) VI. i. 353/2 That there be proveant maisteres appointed alsweell for the north as for the south.