DCHP-3

store

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1a†n.

a retail shop.

Quotations

1764
Alexander Mackenzie & John Grant, Have to sell at their Store, in the Low-Town of Quebec, A Great Variety of Goods. . . .
1827
The towns are full of shops, or what are called stores.
1966
The new store has a total area of over 20,000 sq. ft. with approximately 13,000 sq. ft. devoted to sales area and the balance to stockroom.
1bn. — Hist.

See store pay quotes.

Quotations

1832
I have 5 s. a day, and 2 s. 6 d. per day in store, what they call it: you must take clothes, shoes, hats, or any thing that your master works for, and I take 15 s. a week paid in money.
2†n. — Maritimes

a shore building where offshore fishermen store gear and sometimes cure their fish.

See: fish house(def. 1)

Quotations

1957
He was at the shore in the store (fish house) and when he went outside a sea gull flew very low.