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The storesman who looks after issuing rations to the cooks and takes care of the ordering and storing of food onboard. From the word victual (which is actually pronounced vittle).
The officer responsible for all money matters in RCN ships including the paying and provisioning of the crew, all stores, tools and spare parts.
VERtical REPlenishment. Bringing stores or personnel aboard the ship by use of a helicopter.
A naval stores clerk.
Stores is aeronautical slang for the guns, bombs and similar carried on an aircraft.
timber cut in the woods for stage, flakes and stores
A storage area for kit that's not immediately required.
Any floating cargo, stores, or damaged equipment which have floated off a wrecked or damaged vessel.
Stores or equipment deliberately thrown over side to lighten ship. Debris ejected from a ship that sinks or washes ashore. Also see "Flotsam".
A small single-masted boat, fore-and-aft rigged, with two or more headsails and often a bowsprit. 2. A small boat serving a larger vessel, used to ferry passengers or light stores between larger vessels and the shore.
A term referring to naval clothing stores. Derived from the olde English term "slope" which was a loose fitting and shapeless garment.
1. Royal Navy slang for a purser, a ship's supply officer, now called a Logistics Officer. 2. Naval slang for anything that is military-like or service issue, as in "pusser's issue", meaning anything that is supplied by the Navy. eg. "I went to clothing stores and bought pusser running shoes."
Traditionally, the person who buys, stores and sells all supplies on board ships, including victuals, rum and tobacco. This term has largely fallen out of use in the RCN, however, its derivative "pusser" is still vey common.
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v. t.
Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family.
n.
A man in charge of stores or goods of any kind; as, a naval storekeeper.
v. t.
To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.
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To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election.
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A kind of light, hard cake or bread, as for stores.
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To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
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A place or building in which stores of wealth are deposited; especially, a place where public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government; hence, also, the place of deposit and disbursement of any collected funds.
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A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; -- called also transport ship, transport vessel.
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Having to do with shipping; of or pertaining to ships or a navy; consisting of ships; as, naval forces, successes, stores, etc.
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An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores.
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Whatever materials are used in war for defense or for annoying an enemy; ammunition; also, stores and provisions; military stores of all kinds.
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One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the Norway, or brown, rat (M. decumanus), the black rat (M. rattus), and the roof rat (M. Alexandrinus). These were introduced into America from the Old World.
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A figure by which the conjunction is often repeated, as in the sentence, "We have ships and men and money and stores." Opposed to asyndeton.
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A house or building where treasures and stores are kept.
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A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of all the parts or particulars of a thing, with a design to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality; as, a survey of the stores of a ship; a survey of roads and bridges; a survey of buildings.
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A space occupied by the animals, wagons, pontoons, and materials of all kinds, as ammunition, ordnance stores, hospital stores, provisions, etc., when brought together; also, the objects themselves; as, a park of wagons; a park of artillery.
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A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, or the like.
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A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc.
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A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.
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Incapable of being exhausted, emptied, or used up; unfailing; not to be wasted or spent; as, inexhaustible stores of provisions; an inexhaustible stock of elegant words.
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