sea stores

American  

plural noun

1. provisions and supplies to be used on a sea voyage.

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Etymology

Origin of sea stores

First recorded in 1650–60

Example Sentences

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sea stores

Yes, he was willing enough, and he took with him a few big granite boulders as his sea stores.

From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by P. Chr. Asbj?rnsen

Also, having an inefficient caterer, our sea stores were exhausted on the way, with the ludicrous exception of about a peck of nutmegs.

From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

He supplied me with a new suit of clothes and a hat, a small sum of money for my necessary expenses, and a number of little articles for sea stores on my voyage to America.

From The Adventures of John Jewitt Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island by John Rodgers Jewitt

We were ordered to the dockyard to draw sea stores.

From Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Frederick Marryat

In every quarter people were seen busy in preparing quilted-cotton armour, making bread, and salting pork for sea stores.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 03 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr