sea stores

provisions and supplies to be used on a sea voyage.

Also called sea stocks.

Origin of sea stores

First recorded in 1650–60

My father was a respectable trader in sea-stores at Nantucket, where I was born.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe |Edgar Allan Poe
We had not exhausted our bountiful provision of sea-stores when we were set ashore in England.

Tales And Novels, Volume 2 (of 10) |Maria Edgeworth
All the trees were stripped, and what we did not use we saved for sea-stores.

Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War |Various
A place of reserve on the platform deck, for the captain's wines and sea-stores.

The Sailor's Word-Book |William Henry Smyth

They so loaded me with sea-stores, that I sent many of them to Savannah.

The Life of the Rev. George Whitefield, Volume I (of 2) |Luke Tyerman