A retail dealer in corn and allied products.
1687. Lond. Gaz., No. 2298/1. The Persons making such Oaths shall be no Corn-Chandler, Meal-man, Factor.
1773. Gentl. Mag., XLIII. 644. Retail maltsters and some corn-chandlers have querns or handmills to grind their corn.
1885. Miss Braddon, Wyllard’s Weird, I. 7. A corn-chandler and respectable inhabitant of the same town.
Hence Corn-chandlery, goods dealt in by a corn-chandler.
1883. Daily News, 6 Sept., 1/5. The Board of Management are prepared to receive Tenders for the Supply of Meat … Cheese, Cornchandlery, Oilman’s Goods.
