Definition of naval stores in US English:
naval stores
plural nounˈnāvəl stô(ə)rz
Articles or materials used in shipping.
Example sentencesExamples
- The loading of cargo was important to the shipowner because the amount of freight the vessel earned was determined by the tonnage of naval stores on board.
- Excellent accounts are given of the development of the naval stores trade in America.
- His father had come to Jacksonville in 1899 in search of pine trees for his naval stores business.
- A brisk commerce in rice, indigo, and sea island cotton was supplemented by deerskins and naval stores from the pine forests of the low country.
- To supply them the Royal Navy used merchant ships to carry naval stores.
- Throughout the 19th Century, naval stores were the primary source of income for Fender County residents.
- The rate of freight paid for ships transporting naval stores was, obviously, of great importance to both sides.
- Spain needed pine for tar, turpentine, and wood - essential naval stores for its shipbuilding industry in Cuba.
- Furs and naval stores constituted a large share of the export trade in the Middle Ages.
- Americans had other disadvantages, such as the lack of copper-bottom ships, inferior armaments, and a shortage of naval stores.