ship chandlery
- a word derived from ship chandler.
Example Sentences
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Lake shippers used to congregate by the dozen in George Carpenter's ship-chandlery, grown now to deal in mill and railroad supplies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Old Haddock, the fisherman, was seized upon one evening in a ship-chandlery and grocery store, that was the usual Rialto of the loungers in B——, and rigorously cross-questioned.
From An Old Sailor's Yarns by Ames, N. (Nathaniel)
A barometer, a map, two stiffly painted pictures exhibiting as many sailing vessels in full flight, a calendar bearing the advertisement of a ship-chandlery firm—this was the extent of the wall decoration.
From Broken to the Plow by Dobie, Charles Caldwell
He did, briefly, giving the facts of his disastrous sojourn in ship-chandlery.
From Fair Harbor by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
In one of the courtyards with many corners, reminding Frederick of certain ancient sections of Hamburg and Nuremberg, was a ship-chandlery bearing the sign, "The Seagoing Ship."
From Atlantis by Seltzer, Adele Szold
