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.
c. 1300 (late 12c. as a surname, and Old English had purlamb lamb without a blemish), unmixed, also absolutely, entirely, from Old French pur pure, simple, absolute, unalloyed, figuratively simple, sheer, mere (12c.), from Latin purus clean, clear; unmixed; unadorned; chaste, undefiled, from PIE root *peue- to purify, cleanse (source ...