sea stores
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of sea stores
First recorded in 1650–60
Example Sentences
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He bought sea stores with the intention of sailing to Nootka Sound, but altered his mind, and determined to travel overland to Kamschkatka, from whence the passage is short to the opposite shore of the American continent.
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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.
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The cabin accommodations and abundant sea stores that fell to the lot of Ralph and himself, under circumstances already mentioned by us, on their voyage from Philadelphia to England in 1724, in the London-Hope, Captain Annis, were rare windfalls; but the voyage was marked by a great deal of bad weather.
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Yes, he was willing enough, and he took with him a few big granite boulders as his sea stores.
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There, if I remember, we were about six weeks, consuming our sea stores and obliged to procure more.
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