Definition of "quartermaster-sergeant" []

• Milit., a non-commissioned officer whose duty it is to assist the quartermaster. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "After rifling through it for socks–you can never have too many clean pairs of socks–it was put under the watchful eye of the company quartermaster-sergeant CQMS."
• "At the next place I came to I learned that he had been with the army, as quartermaster-sergeant; then he went mad over a lawsuit he lost, and was shut up in an asylum for some time."
• "But to march through Dublin as quartermaster-sergeant, now that had been the cheese."