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

Ostensibly to discourage Soviet propaganda ships from using the same trick, Parliament made it a crime for Swedes to supply ships such as Bon Jour with either naval stores or advertising copy.

From Time Magazine Archive

The northern district was devoted to the production of naval stores and tobacco, the southern more to rice culture.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene