small stores

plural noun Navy.

personal articles of regulation issue sold to sailors by a supply officer and charged to their pay, as extra clothing.

Origin of small stores

First recorded in 1830–40

Words nearby small stores

small potatoes, small pudendal lips, small saphenous vein, small screen, small slam, small stores, small stuff, small talk, small time, small white, small wonder

British Dictionary definitions for small stores

small stores

pl n

navy personal items, such as clothing, sold aboard ship or at a naval base Compare slop chest