naval stores

noun

1. supplies for warships.
2. various products of the pine tree, as resin, pitch, or turpentine, used in building and maintaining wooden ships.

Word History and Origins

Origin of naval stores¹

First recorded in 1670–80

Example Sentences

“Should I be proud of his achievement, a properous Tidewater North Carolina cotton and naval stores plantation at the heyday of King Cotton? Forty-six enslaved black people building, cooking, milking, digging, picking, gardening, raising his livestock, and waiting on his family hand and foot made this possible.”

From Washington Post

Still known as naval stores, the industry began oozing forth from southern pine trees during the age of wooden ships.

From Washington Times

By a short measure the Government were empowered to prohibit the exportation of arms or naval stores.

From Project Gutenberg

He fell back to Oswego Falls, where the naval stores had all been removed, destroying the bridges as he retired.

From Project Gutenberg

The vessels employed in these fisheries he knew were invariably supplied with naval stores, etc., and he resolved to live on them.

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