adjutator

Updated: February 9, 2026

"Then will I venture upon him," said the adjutator; "so give me a napkin that I may look like a sewer, and fetch up the food which I directed should be in readiness." Two troopers attended accordingly with a ration of beef, such as was distributed to the private soldiers, and dressed after their fashion a pewter pot of ale, a trencher with salt, black pepper, and a loaf of ammunition bread.

Sir Walter Scott - Woodstock; or, the Cavalier