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

When combined with vinegar and sugar it makes a liqueur which, if diluted with water, is most useful in febrile disorders, and which is all excellent addition to sea stores as preventive of scurvy.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie

We took away two boat loads, to increase our sea stores.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 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

At other times we range through our sea stores, eating anything we like, cooked anyhow we like.

From Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot by Wilkie Collins

Large quantities of salmon were now caught with the seine, and salted for sea stores, and the sea-horse blubber was also boiled down for oil, all the candles having long been expended.

From Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries by William Henry Giles Kingston

Some of the meat we ate fresh, but the larger quantity was salted down for sea stores.

From Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler by James Durden