chandlery
Origin of chandlery
1Words Nearby chandlery
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use chandlery in a sentence
A nice, steady young man in the ship-chandlery business, with a little money saved up, whose folks lived at Portsmouth.
A Little Girl in Old Salem | Amanda Minnie DouglasNot liking the tallow-chandlery business, his father apprenticed him to a printer.
Harper's Young People, November 25, 1879 | VariousThen he moved towards the forepeak, which was hampered with coils of rope and spare chandlery in general.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) | Robert Louis StevensonWhen a boy he associated himself with the development of the tallow-chandlery interest, and invented the Boston dip.
“And leave off his evil ways, and set up in the chandlery line, arterwards,” said the housemaid.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 1(of 2) | Charles Dickens
British Dictionary definitions for chandlery
/ (ˈtʃɑːndlərɪ) /
the business, warehouse, or merchandise of a chandler
a place where candles are kept
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse