1. a store that sells supplies and equipment for ships and boats
Usage: nautical
2. the business or trade of making or selling candles
Usage: historical

Examples

• The sailors visited the chandlery to buy rope and navigation equipment.
• We found everything we needed for our boat at the local chandlery.
• The old chandlery near the harbor has been serving fishermen for decades.
• His grandfather ran a chandlery that supplied merchant ships.
• The chandlery stocked marine hardware, charts, and safety equipment.
• In colonial times, the chandlery was an essential business in every port town.