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slop chest
noun
- a supply of clothing, boots, tobacco, and other personal goods for sale to the crew of a ship during a voyage.
- (formerly) a chest containing this supply.
slop chest
noun
- See small storesa stock of merchandise, such as clothing, tobacco, etc, maintained aboard merchant ships for sale to the crew Compare small stores
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Word History and Origins
Origin of slop chest1
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Example Sentences
Johnson, it seems, bought a suit of oilskins from the slop-chest and found them to be of greatly inferior quality.
We still keep our old quarters, and she has bedded the new-comers in the big after-room with blankets issued from the slop-chest.
She has issued underclothes all around from the slop-chest, and is ordering them to take a bath in the rain-water just caught.
One thing she did appreciate though, and that was the Windwards slop-chest tobacco.
As for you, you've sweated and slaved so much that your clothes hang on like you a slop-chest shirt on a stanchion just now.
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