ship chandler

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noun

a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.

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Origin of ship chandler

First recorded in 1635–45

OTHER WORDS FROM ship chandler

ship chandlery, noun

Words nearby ship chandler

shipborne, shipboy, ship-broker, shipbuilder, ship canal, ship chandler, ship decanter, shipentine, shipfitter, Shipka Pass, shiplap

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How to use ship chandler in a sentence

"De Long" is just the kind of story of the crooked cosmopolitan ship-chandler that Conrad would write, indeed has written.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 148, January 13th 1915|Various
A blind-cord creaked, a window went up over a ship-chandler's shop next door, and a man thrust out his head.
The Adventures of Harry Revel|Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The captain and I stayed on board, and the ship-chandler got a West India boy to cook for us.
Man Overboard!|F(rancis) Marion Crawford
He was the son of a merchant-captain, and passed his life as a ship chandler in Wapping: I need not search for a better witness.
Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 116, January 17, 1852|Various

He was originally a piano maker, and afterwards a ship chandler at Wapping, which trade he carried on till his death.
Chronological Retrospect of the History of Yarmouth and Neighbourhood|William Finch-Crisp

British Dictionary definitions for ship chandler

ship chandler

noun

a person or business dealing in supplies for ships

Derived forms of ship chandler

ship chandlery, noun

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