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

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

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

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

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

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

From Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical by Benjamin Franklin