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Meanings of sea biscuit in English
Spanish
hardtack Very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple.
Synonyms
Examples for "hardtack"
Examples for "hardtack"
1
All he was able to eat was some hardtack dipped in tea.
2
Kirby swallowed what must have been the last soggy crumb of hardtack.
3
From moment to moment I stuffed my mouth with hardtack and pork.
4
The Adjunct picked up a hardtack biscuit, dipped it in the tea.
5
The hole now exposed, Captain Kean stuffed it with sea biscuit, or hardtack.
1
They decided on pilot biscuit and the always dependable beans.
2
And this cheese and crackers isn't half way bad, even if it is pilot biscuit.
3
Not a fish, not a hunk of venison, not a pilot biscuit was on their sled.
4
They squatted on the bank and opened their beans, but beans and pilot biscuit made dry eating, and soon the canteens were empty.
5
Cheered by the very thought of something to be done, Lucile munched her half of the pilot biscuit and bit of reindeer meat contentedly.
1
At noon they dismounted and lunched on salt-pork and pilot bread.
2
The first course is broiled jack rabbit with pilot bread and delicious, sparkling alkali water.
3
The White Chief sat down leisurely on a box of pilot bread as if to better enjoy the situation.
4
Near the glass into which he had drawn the water, lay a small piece of pilot bread, and this he dropped into the tumbler.
5
Nothing appears to be wanting; but here is good pilot bread, potatoes even, and other little niceties, in addition to the turtle and the fish.
1
The crazy fellow was eating some ship biscuit, which lay in a basket.
2
Dring had some ship biscuit with him, in his bag.
3
This, with tea and ship biscuit, constituted their supper.
4
As was my custom, I had in the pocket of my singlet a number of ship biscuit.
5
There was a bag of ship biscuit; we fried some hung beef, and made a jolly good supper.
Usage of sea biscuit in English
1
The sailor grinned and passed him a fragment of sea biscuit.
2
The hole now exposed, Captain Kean stuffed it with sea biscuit, or hardtack.
3
Then add some broken sea biscuit, and boil fifteen minutes longer.
4
Bits of white bread or sea biscuit can be used in the same way.
5
I've had a sea biscuit and a spoonful of salmon in the last two days.
6
The sea biscuit, absorbing moisture, swelled, and this together with the canvas, butter and planking proved effectual.
7
A large amount of sea biscuit was brought into a house for distribution by a benevolent gentleman.
8
No, we have not-unless, at least, you count a sea biscuit dipped in salt water a breakfast.
9
He had eaten nothing since the hasty luncheon of sea biscuit and pork on the night he and Jimmy parted.
10
Of the latter they had certainly an abundant supply, but would willingly have exchanged some of it for the coarsest sea biscuit.
11
The wort, so prepared, is then to be boiled into a panada, with sea biscuit or dried fruits generally carried to sea.
12
I had two sea biscuit in my pocket and a few inches of dried venison, with the nearest road-house over fifty miles away.
13
This, bad as it was, was still warm and comforting, and, together with our sea biscuit and cold salt beef, made a meal.
14
There was a pannikin of cold stewed tea slung from a hook in there, and half a sea biscuit on one of the bunks.
15
Also two sea biscuits which have been soaked until they are soft.
16
Then break into the stewpan four sea biscuits, cook for five minutes longer.