STORE-KEEPER. An officer in the royal dockyards, invested with the general charge of naval stores, as the sails, anchors, cordage, &c.
STORES. A general term for the arms, clothing, ropes, sails, provisions, and other outfit, with which a ship is supplied.
STORE-SHIP. A government vessel appropriated for carrying munitions and stores.
STORM, To. To take by vigorous assault, in spite of the resistance of the defenders.
STORM-BREEDERS. Heavy cumulo-stratus clouds.
STORM-DRUM. A canvas cylinder 3 feet in length, expanded at each end by a strong wooden hoop 3 feet in diameter. Fitzroy's is painted black, and presents, when suspended, the appearance of a black square of 3 feet, from all points of view.
STORM-FINCH. The petrel, or Mother Cary's chicken.
STORM-JIB. In cutters, the fifth or sixth size: the inner jib of square-rigged ships.
STORM-KITE. A contrivance for sending a hawser from a stranded vessel to the shore.
STORMS [from the Anglo-Saxon steorm]. Tempests, or gales of wind in nautic language, are of various kinds, and will be found under their respective designations. But that is a storm which reduces a ship to her storm staysails, or to her bare poles.