chandler
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There he would join five or six fellow Greeks some of whom lived in the area, among them Alexanderos Callinicos, a local ship chandler.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2016
But the flow dropped to zero in January, according to state data, and a ship chandler in Portland says the pipeline had no tanker deliveries in February.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 8, 2016
“Nothing is going to flow until this court case is resolved,” said Mark Usinger, a Portland ship chandler who for years has delivered supplies to the oil tankers.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 8, 2016
My Great Uncle Emlyn, a keen Methodist, had a job in Smithfield meat market collecting unwanted offcuts to deliver to the tallow chandler.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 25, 2012
Dusty old Bogdana Lagounova—the chandler who Dyedka thought was terrible—stepped forward.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
The duo had originally envisaged their project as a way to revive specific arts-and-crafts traditions, sourcing lacemakers, glass blowers and chandlers from Vienna to Milan to their native Cairo.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2022
Harbor Ship Supply is among the shrinking ranks of ship chandlers, a name that derives from the French word for candles, once a key item onboard ship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2022
“It was not only the merchants trading in enslaved human beings who profited but barrel-makers, brothel-keepers, chandlers, candle-makers, carpenters, dockworkers, inn-keepers, laundresses, sailors, sail-makers and shoemakers,” Carby writes.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 9, 2019
Huston even sourced original harpoons from the long-forgotten lofts of ship chandlers who’d worked in the Yorkshire whaling port of Hull.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2015
My estimation of captains and ship chandlers wavered.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
