ship chandler

noun

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

ship chandler

noun

1. a person or business dealing in supplies for ships

Derived Forms

• ship chandlery, noun

Other Words From

• ship chandlery noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of ship chandler¹

First recorded in 1635–45

Example Sentences

"De Long" is just the kind of story of the crooked cosmopolitan ship-chandler that Conrad would write, indeed has written.

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A blind-cord creaked, a window went up over a ship-chandler's shop next door, and a man thrust out his head.

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The captain and I stayed on board, and the ship-chandler got a West India boy to cook for us.

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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.

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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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