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QUARTERMASTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quartermaster mean? 

QUARTERMASTER (noun)
  The noun QUARTERMASTER has 1 sense:

1. an army officer who provides clothing and subsistence for troopsplay

  Familiarity information: QUARTERMASTER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


QUARTERMASTER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An army officer who provides clothing and subsistence for troops

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("quartermaster" is a kind of...):

army officer (an officer in the armed forces)


 Context examples 


Flint was cap'n; I was quartermaster, along of my timber leg.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He talked with a quartermaster off duty, an intelligent man who promptly prodded him with the socialist propaganda and forced into his hands a bunch of leaflets and pamphlets.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Billy Bones was the mate; Long John, he was quartermaster; and they asked him where the treasure was.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Well now, I tell you, I'm not a boasting man, and you seen yourself how easy I keep company, but when I was quartermaster, LAMBS wasn't the word for Flint's old buccaneers.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Yet, I think, none treated him better than a dog, unless it was Ben Gunn, who was still terribly afraid of his old quartermaster, or myself, who had really something to thank him for; although for that matter, I suppose, I had reason to think even worse of him than anybody else, for I had seen him meditating a fresh treachery upon the plateau.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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