But I thought perhaps you'd like your own home ways best, and so I've ordered the ship's chandler ashore to send off a case of Scotch, and another of Chicago beef.
Harrison was just in the prime of life, forty years of age, stout made, good features, but in height was rather below medium, was a man of more than ordinary shrewdness, by trade he was a chandler.
On the day before sailing a number of the ship captains were gathered together in the chandler's store, talking of freights and passages, and speculating on the runs they hoped to make.
There are no ship's chandlers in Central Africa, and it is the custom there, when you lack stores, to go to a village on the bank and requisition anything that is available.
They called at several grocery and provision stores, and also at a ship chandler's.
chandler
noun[C]
uk/ˈtʃɑːnd.lər/us/ˈtʃænd.lɚ/
apersonwhotradesinsuppliesforships
船具供应商
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Chandleradds his own research on both countries, where he has seen archives of a sample of firms.
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Chandler(1938) reviewed nine human cases of stomach infections involving this organism.
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Chandler's position, that legal change was an essential component of business development.
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Chandler's point was that, regardless of personal conviction, it was impossible to trust conciliar decisions because they clearly could not agree and kept changing their minds.
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Chandlersuggests two possible explanations.
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This included yacht clubs, marinas, ship-brokers, owners, managers and agents, chandlers, repairers and harbour masters.
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I think that anything except painters' brushes bought in ships' chandlers will be subject to the tax.
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The chandlers and all the furnishers who are associated with the finishing work in connection with the cargo ship are not required for the tanker.
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I feel that the little man is at a disadvantage, because he has to go to the localchandlerand buy what he can get.
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The private firm has to go in for ancillary trades—lighterage, ships' chandlers and transhipment of bulk cargoes.
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In the old days, the premises of chandlers, small ship repairers, and so on, were part and parcel of dockland.
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The private hauliers, stevedores and ships chandlers are almost extinct.
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In my constituency there is a small firm of ships' chandlers.
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They are supposed to be tallow chandlers or spur sharpeners or saddle grinders, but they have nothing to do with any trade at all.
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The boat building industry and the activities of shipyards, chandlers and related suppliers, much of whose production is exported, is based on a sound home market.
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