Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (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. 2. (n.) A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master.

Multi-Version Concordance Quartermaster (1 Occurrence) Jeremiah 51:59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster. (WEB JPS NAS RSV)