naval stores
supplies for warships.
various products of the pine tree, as resin, pitch, or turpentine, used in building and maintaining wooden ships.
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How to use naval stores in a sentence
And when they are in America, they have not such advantages for supplies of provisions, naval stores, &c. as the French.
Arsenal, r′se-nal, n. a dock possessing naval stores: a public magazine or manufactory of naval and military stores.
Several hundred men of burden were dispatched to Vera Cruz to transport naval stores from that place to Mexico.
Hernando Cortez | John S. C. AbbottThe conference desired by Sir J. Yorke, concerning the meaning of the treaties relative to naval stores, shall be refused.
The resolution mentioned in my letter of the 10th, to deny convoy for naval stores, has not yet been formally adopted.
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