What is "chandler"

Chandler \Chan"dler\, n. [F. chandelier a candlestick, a maker or seller of candles, LL. candelarius chandler, fr. L. candela candle. See Candle, and cf. Chandelier.]

1. A maker or seller of candles.

   The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat.
   --Gay.

2. A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by a word prefixed; as, ship chandler, corn chandler.

"maker or seller of candles," late 14c., attested as a surname from late 13c. (also, from early 14c. "candle-holder;" see chandelier), from Old French chandelier (n.2) "candle-maker, candle-seller; person in charge of lighting a household, monastery, etc.," from Latin candelarius, from candela "candle" (see candle). Native candleman is attested from mid-13c.

n. 1 An English occupational surname for a maker or seller of candles. 2 (given name male from=surnames), transferred use of the surname.

A chandler was the head of the chandlery in medieval households, responsible for wax, candles, and soap.

Chandler may also refer to:

• Ship chandler, a dealer in special supplies or equipment for ships

Chandler is a Christian contemporary/praise & worship band. The band is made up of three brothers and their two childhood friends. They are from Stockbridge, Georgia along with their counterpart Casting Crowns. In 2007, they had a national hit single on Christian Inspirational radio with their song "I Know You're There," which has since been covered by Casting Crowns on their album The Altar and the Door.

Chandler, so called because he once pulled a Chandler's cart was the winner of the 1848 Grand National steeplechase at Aintree near Liverpool, England when ridden to victory by Josey Little in the colours of Captain William Peel.

He was prepared for the race by Tom Eskrett and in one pre race at Warwick in 1847 it was claimed that the horse jumped a World record 39 feet when clearing a fence and four fallen horses in one leap.

He returned to defend his crown in 1849 but was largely ignored by the public, finishing fifth.

Chandler, which means a maker or seller of candles, is the surname of the following people and fictional characters:

Chandler (also known as Open Shadow) is a 1971 neo noir film directed by Paul Magwood and based on a story of his own creation. The film stars Warren Oates as a man with the single name of Chandler: "as in Raymond," he says at one point. It co-stars Leslie Caron, married at the time to the film's producer, Michael Laughlin. Cameo roles feature Gloria Grahame and Scatman Crothers.

Chandler is a lunar crater that is located in the northern hemisphere, on the Moon's far side. It lies to the southeast of the large walled plain D'Alembert, and southeast of the slightly smaller crater Chernyshev.

This is a heavily worn and eroded crater that is now essentially a wide, irregular depression in the rugged lunar surface. Attached to the outer south-southwest rim is the slightly smaller but equally worn Chandler P. Multiple small craters lie along the rim and inner wall of Chandler, but the northern part of the rim has been nearly obliterated by a cluster of small impacts. There is also seemingly a chain of impacts that run across the crater midpoint, with a double impact in the western half and a chain of three impacts in the eastern half. The remainder of the floor is somewhat irregular, with multiple tiny craters and a pair of small impacts near the southern rim.

Chandler was a personal information management software suite described by its developers as a "Note-to-Self Organizer" designed for personal and small-group task management and calendaring. It is free software, previously released under the GNU General Public License, and now released under the Apache License 2.0. It is inspired by a PIM from the 1980s called Lotus Agenda, notable because of its "free-form" approach to information management. Lead developer of Agenda, Mitch Kapor, was also involved in the vision and management of Chandler.

Chandler consists of a cross-platform desktop application (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux), the Chandler Hub Sharing Service, Chandler Server, Chandler Quick Entry for iPhone, and Chandler Quick Entry for Android. Version 1.0 of the software was released on August 8, 2008.

Chandler was developed by the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF). It is named after the mystery novelist Raymond Chandler.

Chandler is also the subject of the non-fiction book Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg.

Chandler is a masculine given name which may refer to:

People:

• Chandler Beach (1839–1928), American entrepreneur and encyclopedist
• Chandler Brossard (1922–1993), American novelist, writer, editor and teacher
• Chandler Burr (born 1963), American journalist and author
• Chandler Hale (1873–1951), American diplomat
• Chandler Jones (1990), National Football League defensive end
• Chandler Jones (1991), Canadian Football League wide receiver
• Chandler Massey (born 1990), American actor
• Chandler Owen (1889–1967), African-American writer, editor and early member of the Socialist Party of America
• Chandler Parsons (born 1988), Small Forward, Dallas Mavericks, National Basketball Association
• Chandler Riggs (born 1999), American actor
• Chandler Williams (1985–2013), National Football League wide receiver

Fictional characters:

• Chandler Bing, a fictional character on the TV series Friends