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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One that makes or sells candles.
  2. n. A retail dealer in specified goods or equipment: a ship chandler.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who makes or sells candles, or, formerly, torches.
  2. n. A huckster; a dealer in provisions.
  3. n. In composition, a dealer; a merchant: the particular application being determined by the other element of the compound: as, tallow-chandler, ship-chandler, corn-chandler, etc.
  4. n. A candlestick. See chandelier.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A person who makes or sells candles
  2. n. A dealer in (a specific kind of) provisions or supplies
  3. n. A California variety of pomelo with a smoother skin than many other varieties.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A maker or seller of candles.
  2. n. A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by a word prefixed.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a maker (and seller) of candles and soap and oils and paints
  2. n. a retail dealer in provisions and supplies
  3. n. United States writer of detective thrillers featuring the character of Philip Marlowe (1888-1959)

Etymologies

  1. Middle English chaundeler, from Old French chandelier, from Vulgar Latin *candēlārius, from Latin candēla, candle; see candle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. candler
  1. handler
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  1. chandler
  2. chaundler
  3. chaunler
  4. condler
  1. corn-chandler
  2. ship chandlery
  3. chandlerly
  4. chandlery
  1. tallow-chandlery
  2. tallow-keech
  3. raffman
  4. ship-chandlery
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  2. philip marlowe
  3. Harris
  4. tallower
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  2. tallow chandlery
  3. almucantar
  4. comprador

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