1 especially in the past, a person who makes candles:
The co-owner of a whaling vessel might be a ship chandler, a baker, or a sailmaker.
This portrait of Henry Thomas Lambert, a master sail-maker and ship chandler, was painted in 1858 by an otherwise unknown artist.
He persists in keeping all the provisions upstairs. His room must be like a chandler's shop.
They spent the summer working in a yacht chandler's in Ibiza harbour.
He was probably the son of Christopher Dyson, wax chandler of the parish of St Alban, Wood Street, London.
Locally produced tallow such as sheep fat became the basic raw material for the New Mexican chandler.
In 1758 she was living in Watling Street, with her husband the tallow chandler.
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.
