Definitions for chandlery

chandlery chan·dler·y

Spelling: [chand-luh-ree, chahnd-]
IPA: /ˈtʃænd lə ri, ˈtʃɑnd-/

Chandlery is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 522 anagrams from letters in chandlery (acdehlnry).

Definitions for chandlery

noun

  1. a storeroom for candles.
  2. the warehouse, wares, or business of a chandler.

Origin of chandlery

First recorded in 1595-1605; chandler + -y3

Examples for chandlery

How are you gettin' on, and how is the chandlery bis'ness likely to do?

No; you're just in time for the biggest bargain in the chandlery line that anybody ever 'ad a chance of.

I had sore worries myself in the money line until poor Dredge made his fortune in the chandlery business.

“And leave off his evil ways, and set up in the chandlery line, arterwards,” said the housemaid.

My boy, you and I will get a slate and pencil before we go into such a chandlery operation!

The forecastle was lumbered with ship's chandlery, the hold nigh full of rice, the lazarette crowded with the teas and silks.

Word Value for chandlery
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Words with friends

19

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