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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--sutler This week's theme: professions that exist mainly as surnames. sutler (SUT-luhr) noun A merchant who follows an army to sell provisions to the soldiers. [From obsolete Dutch soeteler, from soetelen (to do menial work).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "There might have been a sutler or trader in the village who did business with the fort." Julie E. Greene; Fort Frederick Celebrates 250th Anniversary; Hagerstown Morning Herald (Maryland); May 25, 2006. X-Bonus If any kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming they would never touch meat again. I was so moved by the intelligence, sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on 'Babe' that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian. -James Cromwell, actor (1940- )

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