Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dealer in corn. See
chandler .
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Examples
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As for the corn-chandler he brings more skill to it than any; he dances and sings,
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I was referred to a corn-chandler in the market-place of the county town to treat for the house.
The Haunted House 2007
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I was referred to a corn-chandler in the market-place of the county town to treat for the house.
The Haunted House 2007
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I was referred to a corn-chandler in the market-place of the county town to treat for the house.
The Haunted House by Charles Dickens | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004
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It was him that sacked me without a character on the word of a lying corn-chandler.
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There was actually an exquisite white wreath from Miss Le Pettit of Ignores, laid proudly upon the humbler greener offerings of farmers and fisher folk, overpowering with its elegance even an artificial wreath under glass which came from the Bugletown corn-chandler, who was Mr. Lear's chief customer.
The White Riband A Young Female's Folly Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse
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It is one of the great advantages of the country that nothing is lost, and thus the straw which figures so largely in the bill of a London corn-chandler, and which, when converted into manure, is the perquisite of your groom, becomes in the country the means of rendering your garden productive.
Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it Miss Coulton
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Gendral Junot is the son of a corn-chandler near the corn-market of this capital, and was a shopman to his father in 1789.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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Gendral Junot is the son of a corn-chandler near the corn-market of this capital, and was a shopman to his father in 1789.
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On the other hand Chandler, properly a candle-maker, is now used in the compounds corn-chandler and ship's chandler.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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