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

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

We were ordered to the dockyard to draw sea stores.

From Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Frederick Marryat

He supplied me with a new suit of clothes and a hat, a small sum of money for my necessary expenses, and a number of little articles for sea stores on my voyage to America.

From The Adventures of John Jewitt Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island by John Rodgers Jewitt

Large quantities of salmon were now caught with the seine, and salted for sea stores, and the sea-horse blubber was also boiled down for oil, all the candles having long been expended.

From Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries by William Henry Giles Kingston

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