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marine store(s
1. pl.
a. (See quot. 1867.)
b. Old ships' materials as an object of merchandise.
c1829D. Jerrold in M. R. Booth Eng. Plays of 19th Cent. (1969) I. 184 Go into the mercantile line—take a shop for marine-stores. 1831J. Holland Manuf. Metal I. 144 Old iron..is collected..by a class of persons calling themselves ‘dealers in marine stores’. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. v, A shop, over which was written..Krook, Dealer in Marine Stores. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Marine Stores, a general term for the ironwork, cordage, sails, provisions, and other outfit, with which a vessel is supplied.
fig.1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. viii. i. II. 295 These confused Prussian History-Books, opulent in nugatory pedantisms and learned marine-stores.
2. sing. A shop where marine stores are sold.
1837Barham Legend H. Tighe in Ingol. Leg. (1840) 1st Ser. 158 In Ratcliffe Highway there's an old marine store. 1840Marryat Poor Jack xii, Old Nanny..kept a marine store.
3. attrib. and Comb., as marine-store dealer, marine store shop.
1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz, Scenes xxi, There is not a marine-store shop in the neighbourhood, which does not exhibit for sale some faded articles of dramatic finery. 1836Dickens Sk. Boz 1st Ser. I. 91 The marine-store dealer at the corner of the street. 1844Ainsworth's Mag. VI. 112 A marine-store keeper of the pilfered orts and ends of literature. 1869Punch 17 July 22/1 They were marine-store dealers. |