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Nautical merchant
Answer for the clue "Nautical merchant ", 15 letters:
ship's chandler
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a dealer in sails and ropes and other supplies for sailing ships
Usage examples of ship's chandler.
It was the sword 'of one hundred guineas' value' which had been presented to him by the Patriotic Fund for his defeat of the Natividad in the Lydia, and which he had left in pawn with Duddingstone the ship's chandler at Plymouth, as a pledge for payment for captain's stores when he was commissioning the Sutherland.
The music was fine for drinking and for dancing across sawdust-covered floors at places like Big Barb's, the beer hall, bordello, and ship's chandler that served as third platoon's drinking headquarters when they were in town.
He set up as a ship's chandler with stores which I have every reason to believe he stole from me.