naval stores

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noun

supplies for warships.

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

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Origin of naval stores

First recorded in 1670–80

Words nearby naval stores

naval academy, naval architecture, naval brass, naval mine, Naval Observatory, naval stores, navar, Navaratri, Nav. Arch., navarin, Navarino

How to use naval stores in a sentence

But when he saw that all his neighbours were also heading to the stores for stocks, he changed his mind.
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He noted that some retail stores that benefit from Christmas sales still instruct employees to wish customers “Happy Holidays.”
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But the increasing number of fraudsters bringing back wares to stores to make an illicit killing has become impossible to ignore.
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On Thursday, Russian bloggers published pictures of empty shelves in stores that once sold electric goods.
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You can even buy containers of their Cereal Milk in select stores.
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The Spanish troops did not care to venture past a block of buildings in which were the offices and stores of a British firm.
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He had seen through a powerful naval glass some figures standing erect and silhouetted against the sky on the parapet.
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They also seized the lake gunboats, took an entire Spanish garrison prisoner, and captured a large quantity of stores.
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I decided after anxious searching of heart to help the French by taking over some portion of their line with the Naval Brigade.
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Lerida, in Spain, surrendered to the French general Suchet, who found large quantities of stores.
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