hardtack

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"Boys! them poor sick fellows with nothing but hardtack --" The persimmons were carried to the hospital tents.

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  1. noun A hard biscuit or bread made with only flour and water. Also called sea biscuit, sea bread, ship biscuit.

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  • Yet my brother took to smacking his lips over that cola like it was ribeye steak after a week on hardtack, so I did the same. —  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 2005
  • She opened the supply chest and made a sandwich: actually two slabs of hardtack, as it was called, of complementary flavors. —  Alien Plot by Piers Anthony
  • She should have brought out all the hardtack, before sending the ship on its doom flight. —  Alien Plot by Piers Anthony
  • He handed over a piece of hardtack, flinty-surfaced and about as appetizing as a stone. —  Ride Proud, Rebel!
  • He brought out the hardtack which Boyd had so indignantly rejected the night before, and holding the chunk balanced on his saddle horn, rapped it smartly with the butt of a revolver. —  Ride Proud, Rebel!
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