ship's biscuit

noun

hardtack

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Meanings

nounship's biscuit (countable and uncountable, plural ship's biscuits)

plural ship's biscuits

  1. countableuncountablenauticalhardtack

    I found nothing else to do but to offer him one of my good Swede’s ship’s biscuits I had in my pocket.

    1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 206
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    I found a ship's biscuit and a wizened apple in my sketch sack. They smelled of turpentine and revolted my appetite. At dusk I ate them greedily.

    1941, Emily Carr, chapter 21, in Klee Wyck

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
hardtackpilot bread
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