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

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 Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.

There, if I remember right, we were about six weeks, consuming our sea stores, and obliged to procure more.

From Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) by Franklin, Benjamin

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 Kerr, Robert

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 Collins, Wilkie

At this place we bought 14 buts of wine for sea stores, at 15 ducats a but, which had been offered to us at Santa Cruz for 8, 9, or 10 ducats.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Kerr, Robert