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hardtack

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hard·tack  (härdtk)
n.
A hard biscuit or bread made with only flour and water. Also called sea biscuit, sea bread, ship biscuit.
hardtack [ˈhɑːdˌtæk]
n
(Cookery) a kind of hard saltless biscuit, formerly eaten esp by sailors as a staple aboard ship Also called pilot biscuit ship's biscuit sea biscuit
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Noun1.hardtack - very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple
pilot biscuit, pilot bread, sea biscuit, ship biscuit
biscuit - small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda
2.hardtack - a mountain mahogany
mahogany tree, mahogany - any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish
Translations
hardtack [ˈhɑːdtæk] N (Naut) → galleta f


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Half the wagons laden with hardtack that had traveled the first stages with them had been captured by Cossacks, the other half had gone on ahead.
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It was lined with hardtack; the mattress was stuffed with hardtack; every nook and cranny was filled with hardtack.
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