[f. prec.: see -ERY.] a. The business or trade of a tallow-chandler. b. The place of work of a tallow-chandler.
1847. H. Melville Typee, xxiv. 215. Sometimes he might be seen with his whole body fairly reeking with the perfumed oil of the nut, looking as if he had just emerged from a soap-boiler’s vat, or had undergone the process of dipping in a tallow-chandlery.
1864. in Webster.
1866. Routledge’s Every Boy’s Ann., 71. His own tallow-chandlery business.
