marine store

English

Noun

marine store (plural marine stores)

  1. (UK, Australia, historical) A store where old canvas, ropes, etc., are bought and sold; a junk shop.
    • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 48:
      The delivery of Mrs Dibble's goods to the purchaser was done, as a standing grievance, by a marine-store dealer who kept a horse and cart in the lane at the rear of Mrs Dibble's premises, and Rita called on him that evening to arrange for his services.
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