Quartermaster

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master.

(2): ( 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.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Jeremiah 51:59Prince

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

In the army an officer whose duty it is to look after the quarters, clothing, rations, stores, ammunition, &c., of the regiment, and in the navy a petty officer who has to see to the stowage, steerage, soundings, &c., of the ship.