chandlery

/chand-luh-ree, chahnd-/US // ˈtʃænd lə ri, ˈtʃɑnd- //UK // (ˈtʃɑːndlərɪ) //

仓库,杂货店,钟表店,补给站

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural chan·dler·ies.
- : a storeroom for candles.
- : the warehouse, wares, or business of a chandler.

A nice, steady young man in the ship-chandlery business, with a little money saved up, whose folks lived at Portsmouth.
Not liking the tallow-chandlery business, his father apprenticed him to a printer.
Then he moved towards the forepeak, which was hampered with coils of rope and spare chandlery in general.
When a boy he associated himself with the development of the tallow-chandlery interest, and invented the Boston dip.
“And leave off his evil ways, and set up in the chandlery line, arterwards,” said the housemaid.