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ship's biscuit

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ship's biscuit
n
(Transport / Nautical Terms) (Cookery) another name for hardtack


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Bob said: "All the porridge had weevils in it and the apprentices got so hungry they ate the ship's biscuits out of the lifeboats.
In the past, sailing ship crews were unlikely to get much change from their everyday diet of water, bread, ship's biscuits, salted meat, dried peas, rice, tea, coffee and sugar.
Bizarre requests included half a dozen penny mousetraps for a client in Tibet and half a ton of ship's biscuits to be sent to the Indian Ocean.
 
 
 
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