The millmen resolved to bestow public honors on Dominicus Pike, only hesitating whether to tar and feather him, ride him on a rail, or refresh him with an ablution at the town pump, on the top of which he had declared himself the bearer of the news.
The definition of a purveyor is a person or organization that gives out something, such as food, supplies or ideas. An example of a purveyor is the American Red Cross. noun. One that furnishes or sells something, especially food.
Example Sentences for purveyor. To be a purchaser is bad enough; but to be the purveyor thereofâugh! He will wait, and meanwhile do his best to waken his purveyor. All societies know the literary dangler in great houses, and the purveyor to fashionable prejudices. This is now performed, or rather not performed by the Purveyor.