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ship chandler
noun
- a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
ship chandler
noun
- a person or business dealing in supplies for ships
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Derived Forms
- ship chandlery, noun
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Other Words From
- ship chandlery noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ship chandler1
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Example Sentences
"De Long" is just the kind of story of the crooked cosmopolitan ship-chandler that Conrad would write, indeed has written.
A blind-cord creaked, a window went up over a ship-chandler's shop next door, and a man thrust out his head.
The captain and I stayed on board, and the ship-chandler got a West India boy to cook for us.
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.
He was originally a piano maker, and afterwards a ship chandler at Wapping, which trade he carried on till his death.
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