[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. Some times 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.
