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

He was more impressed by the waste of wood in normal sawmill operations, however, than by the possibilities of naval stores.

From Time Magazine Archive

Having completed their victualling, and furnished themselves with the necessary supply of naval stores, our navigators sailed out of the bay on the 9th of May.

From Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Kippis, Andrew