Quartermaster
['kwɔːtəmɑːstə] or ['kwɔtə,mæstɚ]
Definition
(noun.) an army officer who provides clothing and subsistence for troops.
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Definition
(n.) An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies.
(n.) A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master.
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Examples
- But I had been quartermaster, commissary and adjutant in the field. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As quartermaster he declined to fill the requisition, and endorsed on the back of it his reasons for so doing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In the Mexican war in the summer of 1846, I had been appointed regimental quartermaster and commissary and had not been at a battalion drill since. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Arm and put in the trenches your quartermaster employees, citizens, etc. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I, as regimental quartermaster, had charge of the public property and had also to look after the transportation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As commander of the company he made a requisition upon the quartermaster--himself--for something he wanted. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I was detailed to act as quartermaster and commissary to the regiment. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A few minutes later I saw a soldier, a quartermaster's man, mounted, not far away. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I am a competent witness, for I was regimental quartermaster at the time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- After the arrival of General Scott I was sent, as quartermaster, with a large train of wagons, back two days' march at least, to procure forage. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Too much credit cannot, therefore, be awarded to the quartermaster and commissary departments for the zeal and efficiency displayed by them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There never was a corps better organized than was the quartermaster's corps with the Army of the Potomac in 1864. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I was regimental quartermaster at the time and was ordered to remain in charge of camp and the public property at Walnut Springs. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As quartermaster he still persisted that he was right. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The chief quartermaster and the chief commissary were graduates. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- His staff proper, besides all officers constructively on his staff--engineers, inspectors, quartermasters, etc. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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