Hardtack

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A hard biscuit or bread made with only flour and water. Also called sea biscuit, sea bread, ship biscuit.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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
  • n. Any of several mahogany trees, esp. the Cercocarpus betuloides.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Large, coarse, hard biscuit baked without salt and kiln-dried, much used by sailors and soldiers: ship-biscuit.
  • n. Same as hardhead, 6.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a mountain mahogany
  • n. very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple
    • Equivalent
    hard-tack   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    mahogany tree    mahogany    biscuit   
    Cross Reference
    reefer's nut    softtack   
    Variant
    pilot biscuit    pilot bread    ship biscuit    ship bread   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ship biscuit    pilot biscuit    ship's biscuit    pilot bread    sea biscuit   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cornbread    hominy    applesauce    haddie    pemmican   
     
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