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

It is this process which Newport and the naval stores division of Hercules Powder have used to� build up the other 20% of the total business, sharing it fairly evenly between them.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had been sent from New York, with naval stores for the ships and vessels, under the command of Captain Henry.

From Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart. Particularly of his Services in the Canadas, including a reply to the strictures on his Military Character, Contained in an Article in The Quareterly Review by Brenton, E. B.