Hardtack

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  • noun. A hard biscuit or bread made with only flour and water.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Large, coarse, hard biscuit baked without salt and kiln-dried, much used by sailors and soldiers: ship-biscuit.
  • noun. Same as hardhead, 6.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of unleavened hard biscuit or sea bread. Called also pilot biscuit, pilot bread, ship biscuit and ship bread
  • noun. Any of several mahogany trees, esp. the Cercocarpus betuloides.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a mountain mahogany
  • noun. very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple
    • Word Usage
    "“A new delicacy I found out about,” he said, and looked sidelong at Picard, “called hardtack.”"
    cross-reference
    reefer's nut  softtack  
    Equivalent
    hard-tack  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    biscuit  mahogany  mahogany tree  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Cheddar  applesauce  baccy  bannock  bologna  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pilot biscuit  pilot bread  sea biscuit  sea bread  ship biscuit  
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