salt-horse

Petey "Airshow" MacKay might have taken the advice of some of the salt-horse corporals he must occasionally pass and kept out of sight with his mouth shut.

"Airshow" MacKay vs Dal'naya Aviatsia. Paradox Dave 2009

Petey "Airshow" MacKay might have taken the advice of some of the salt-horse corporals he must occasionally pass and kept out of sight with his mouth shut.

Archive 2009-03-01 Dave 2009

The old saying of "salt-horse and hard-tack" exactly described the food; and

Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

The grievances brought forward, amongst others that of the _salt-horse_, (a horse's hoof with the shoe on, so swore the cook, had been found in the pickle,) were treated as trifles and pooh-poohed by the functionary, "a minute gentleman with a viciously pugged nose, and a decidedly thin pair of legs."

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

The "bumboat," laden with delicious fruits and every kind of fresh provender to tempt the Blue jacket and hungry midshipman -- in my own days, utterly sick of the "salt-horse" (salt meat) and weevilly biscuit; but now, alas! the sailor is a spoilt child and quite daintily fed, hence the bumboat is not so great a treat to him when coming from "blue water."

Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux

Having a prisoner consigned to my tender mercy to be fed on the bread of affliction and waters of repentance until further orders, this same prisoner did at dead hour of night break from the guard-house and abscond to his quarters, did there fare sumptuously on hard-tack and salt-horse.

The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster Henry Hill Goodell

Inside of a fortnight Captain Rogers had complimented me on my work and manner, and Mr. Robbins, the mate, said I was worth my salt-horse and hardbread.

Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers W. Bertram Foster

They worked at the rope-tarring till suppertime, then rose wearily, stretching, and went for their salt-horse and biscuit.

The Black Buccaneer 1934

Government ration of salt-horse, coffee, and hard-tack -- was vastly different from that to which the majority of the boys were accustomed, but it was accepted with the good grace displayed by the members of the

A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" Russell Doubleday 1910

"Well," resumed "Stump," "the crazy captain put the doctor and the crew in the cages and began to feed them hardtack and berth-deck scouse and salt-horse and --"

A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" Russell Doubleday 1910