sea stores

American  

plural noun

1. provisions and supplies to be used on a sea voyage.

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Etymology

Origin of sea stores

First recorded in 1650–60

Example Sentences

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sea stores

Some of the meat we ate fresh, but the larger quantity was salted down for sea stores.

From Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler by James Durden

At other times we range through our sea stores, eating anything we like, cooked anyhow we like.

From Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot by Wilkie Collins

Also, having an inefficient caterer, our sea stores were exhausted on the way, with the ludicrous exception of about a peck of nutmegs.

From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Yes, he was willing enough, and he took with him a few big granite boulders as his sea stores.

From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by P. Chr. Asbj?rnsen

There, if I remember, we were about six weeks, consuming our sea stores and obliged to procure more.

From Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical by Benjamin Franklin