Chandler

 In fact, I and the corn chandler, who was looking a bit flagged, I thought, as if he had had a hard morning chandling the corn, were beginning to doze lightly when things suddenly brisked up, bringing Gussie into the picture for the first time.

(from Right Ho, Jeeves, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)

A corn chandler was a corn merchant. The earliest use dates back to the late 1600s.