candler
nounEtymology From candle (verb) + -er.
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A device for candling.
- An egg candler used in a light room can be easily made […]1917 September, Popular Mechanics, page 472:
candler
nounEtymology From Middle English candelere, equivalent to candle (noun) + -er.
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A person who makes candles; a chandler.
- A maker of candles is very properly called a candler; however, (as observed before) ch is seldom pronounced in this parish.1829, Joseph Hunter, The Hallamshire Glossary: