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

When the Newport Chemical & Dye division was sold to the du Ponts in 1931, Ferdinand's son, Armin Ardery Schlesinger, kept the naval stores division, is still Newport's president.

From Time Magazine Archive

The headquarters of the fleet and arsenal are in the island of Salamis, where there is a dockyard with naval stores, a floating dock and a torpedo school.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various