1. A room set apart for the storing of goods or supplies, esp. those of a ship or household.
1746. P. Yorke, in G. Harris, Ld. Chanc. Hardwicke (1847), II. 293. He [the witness] saw powder, shot, & bonnets distributed to them out of a store-room, whereof his Lord kept the key himself.
1748. Anson’s Voy., III. i. 301. The Gunner’s fore store-room.
1780. Mirror, No. 93. When he gives out the wine from the cellar, and the groceries from the store-room.
1846. A. Young, Naut. Dict., 77. In frigates, and ships of a higher rate, the gunner’s, boatswain’s, and carpenter’s store rooms are in the fore cockpit.
1857. Ruskin, Pol. Econ. Art, i. 13. You will see the good housewife taking pride … in her well-dressed dish, and her full storeroom.
1886. [see STOREHOUSE 1 b].
attrib. 1750. Blanckley, Naval Expos., 90. Storeroom lanterns, a triangular Light placed at the Bulk-head of the Boatswain and Carpenter’s Store-Rooms.
1897. ‘Sarah Grand,’ Beth Bk., xii. 104. He led the way down a stone passage to the storeroom door.
2. Room or space for storage.
1783. Justamond, trans. Raynal’s Hist. Indies, IV. 457. Tobacco … pays two sols six deniers per quintal to the government for store-room.
1887. Spons’ Househ. Man., 100. If the cupboards are taken up to the ceiling line,… increased storeroom would be provided for clothing not immediately required.
