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Chandeler, Chan(d)ler, n. Also: chandeller, -iller, -ilier; chandlere, -lor; chanleir, -lour. [ME. chandeler, chaundeler (14th c.), e.m.E. cha(u)ndler, AF. chandeler. OF. chandelier.]

1. = Chandelare.The form chandler is very common after 1590.(a) 1527 Caldwell P. 57.
Ane hingand chandeler 1562 Will A. Betoun 225.
viij bressine chandeleris 1596 Wemyss of Bogie MSS.
Twa chandiliers 1603 Montgomery Mem. 246.
Two chandellers 1618 Ib. 279.
Thrie wyre chandilleris(b) 1512 Treas. Acc. IV. 339.
To tua servitours at turst the chandleris and eucharist of Edinburgh to Linlithgw 1516 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS. 418/2.
A great chandlere, a irne brander 1553 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 336.
Summa of the silver chandlers for this instant ȝeir 1573 Cath. Tract. 20/12.
Na man doth licht ane lanterne, putting it vnder ane firlot bot in ane chandler 1590 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 19.
Henry Charteris and Roger M^cnacht [are] to … sett the buirds, furneis chandleris and get flowres 1604 Elgin Rec. II. 120.
He knew quho it was that wes ringand a chandler 1612 Edinb. Test. XLVII. 86 b.
Ane hingand chandler for the wallis Ib. 142 b.
Ane standing chandler for the buirde 1628 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. II. 462.
He tooke up ane chandler … and thairwith strake the said Elisabeth 1645 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. III. 43.
A great chandler, with ane litle chandler 1664 Carstairs Lett. 149.
Send me … my iron chandler … with a pair of coarse sixpennie candleshears 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. i. 50.
In taverns … Where … some throw a chandler, some a can(c) 1585 9th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 193/1.
Ane hingand chanler of tymmer 1615 Haddington Corr. 288.
Four siluer chanleris 1632 St. A. Baxter Bks. 93.
For … iniuring Wiliam Leuingstoun in breaking his face with ane chanler 1644 Edinb. Test. LXI. 38.
Ane tinn chanler & ane brass chanler 1648 Linlithgow Pal. 332.
3 tine chanleiris 1700 Foulis Acc. Bk. 274.
To Jamie Gray to pay for a chanler mending at the West Port(d) 1653 Peebles B. Rec. II. 8.
Iohn Mitchell grantes casting of ane aill cop and ane chandlor at Iaksones face 1674 Montgomery Mem. 337.
Ane heigh gilt saltfatt and four gilt chanlours

2. Attrib. with bras. 1595 Edinb. Test. XXVIII. 47.
Of chandler bras fyve pund 1610 Ib. XLVI. 186 b.
Tuentie four pund of chandler bras 1643 Ib. LX. 349 b.
Sevin pund weycht … of auld chandler bras