ship's chandler

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   a dealer in sails and ropes and other supplies for sailing ships

   Broaderchandler

Questions about ship's chandler

What does ship's chandler mean?

ship's chandler means "a dealer in sails and ropes and other supplies for sailing ships".

Is ship's chandler a common word?

ship's chandler is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.