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

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Example Sentences

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naval stores

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

Constantly tinkering this product, the naval stores companies now have outlets in disinfectants, textile compounds, solvents, lotions, polishes, liquid soaps, insecticides.

From Time Magazine Archive

If the Southern pine forests are allowed to dwindle, the deficit in lumber will not affect world commerce as disastrously as the cutting off of the naval stores production.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers

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