naval stores

American  

noun

1. supplies for warships.

2. various products of the pine tree, as resin, pitch, or turpentine, used in building and maintaining wooden ships.

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Etymology

Origin of naval stores

First recorded in 1670–80

Example Sentences

In addition, naval stores for building and maintaining ships for trade and war could be sent only to England.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Plantations grew tobacco, cotton, corn, wheat, and hemp, and pine forests still yielded naval stores.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Still known as naval stores, the industry began oozing forth from southern pine trees during the age of wooden ships.

From Washington Times • Aug. 23, 2014

By 1933 the housing collapse and a shrunken export market reduced the naval stores industry to a pauperish $13,792,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

We also had what was known as the "triangular line," handling cotton and naval stores.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis