ship chandlery
- a word derived from ship chandler.
Example Sentences
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Just twenty-one or so, both of them, and they had the biggest ship chandlery in Salem.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
Henry Austin, afterwards a partner with William Stairs in ship chandlery, Water Street, south of the fuel yard, and John Owen, shop keeper and shipping merchant.
From History of Halifax City by Akins, Thomas B.
Now 4it happens that there is in this city, down by the river where it flows black with city stain as though the toes of commerce had been washed therein, a certain ship chandlery.
From Journeys to Bagdad by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)
She seems to resemble a glorified Army and Navy Stores, with engineering, ship fitting, ship chandlery, outfitting, haberdashery, carpentry, chemists, dry provisions, butchers, bakers, stationery, postal, and fancy goods departments.
From Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories by Dorling, H. Taprell (Henry Taprell)
With his wife and family he moved south to Alexandria, where he set up in the ship chandlery business with his sons.
From Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Moore, Gay Montague
