Found 2 hits - Term: hard-tack, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hardtack \hard"tack`\ or hard-tack
\hard"-tack`\haumrd"ta^k`, n.
1. a name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of
unleavened hard biscuit or sea bread. called also pilot
biscuit, pilot bread, ship biscuit and ship bread
1913 webster
2. any of several mahogany trees, esp. the cercocarpus
betuloides. --mw10
pjc
see also:
pilot biscuit pilot bread ship biscuit ship bread cercocarpus betuloides
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
hardtack
n 1: very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple
syn: pilot biscuit, pilot bread, sea biscuit, ship
biscuit
2: a mountain mahogany
see also:
pilot biscuit pilot bread sea biscuit ship biscuit
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