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Slop chest   /slɑp tʃɛst/   Listen
Slop chest

noun
1.
Commissary maintained aboard merchant ships to sell merchandise to the crew.





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"Slop chest" Quotes from Famous Books



... us were without clothes except what we stood upright in, when we joined, the "slop chest" was opened, and every applicant received from the steward what Captain Slocum thought fit to let him have, being debited with the cost against such wages as he might afterwards earn. The clothes ...
— The Cruise of the Cachalot - Round the World After Sperm Whales • Frank T. Bullen
... peace-loving skipper had forbidden the crew to wear sheath knives; but in this exigency I overruled the edict. While the professor went down into his flooded room to doctor his ankle and attend to his instruments, I raided the slop chest, and armed every man of us with a sheath knife and belt; for while we could not see the creature, we could feel it—and a knife is better than a gun ...
— The Grain Ship • Morgan Robertson


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