ship-chandlers

All three give glimpses of the shops of grocers, block-makers, slop-sellers, and ship-chandlers, around the doors of which are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts, and such other wharf-rats as haunt the Wapping of a seaport.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

The big building on the market square in Inverness sheltered a great many enterprises-food vendors, cattle and swine brokers, assurance agents, ship-chandlers and Royal Navy recruiters, but it was the group of men, women and children bunched in one corner that lent most force to the illusion.

Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

A few minutes later I was passing in front of Simpson & Co., the big ship-chandlers who were the

Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick

During the whole performance there was a continual interchange of social greetings between corpulent ship-chandlers, their heads violently greased for the occasion, and certain frowsy women sprinkled scantily through the house.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Various

How curiously names on the sterns of vessels, and _annonces_ over the shops of _traiteurs_ and ship-chandlers, in very readable Greek, carry the mind back to the Phocæan founders of this great emporium of commerce!

Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

The ship had to be provisioned and stored for her long voyage, having in view the fact that there were no ship-chandlers in the Polar regions, but those of us who had "sailed the way before" had a slight inkling that we might meet more ships, and _others_ who would lend us a helping hand in the matter of Naval stores.

South with Scott Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans 1918

All three give glimpses of the shops of grocers, block-makers, slop-sellers, and ship-chandlers, around the doors of which are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts, and such other wharf-rats as haunt the Wapping of a seaport.

The Custom-House. Introductory to “The Scarlet Letter” 1917

The gear from the ship-chandlers had arrived on the morning train.

El Diablo Brayton Norton 1914

"I'll order it by express," he announced, as he put in his call for the ship-chandlers at

El Diablo Brayton Norton 1914

Close upon the message from the attorney came one from the ship-chandlers at Port Angeles.

El Diablo Brayton Norton 1914