Very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple.
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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 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.
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.
6 When he seasoned them with some morsels of pork, substituting ship biscuit for bread, his repasts were fit for an admiral.
7 Half-a-dozen men sat at the tables, mostly eating ship biscuit of their own and goat's-milk cheese which they bought with their wine.
8 Now Washington, you get some ship biscuit , dried beef, and coffee from your stock in the galley and we will each carry our own rations.
9 The old hunter opened it and found it filled with ship biscuits .
10 Rosin, tallow, and ship biscuits , if destined to ports of military or naval equipment.
11 At supper-time Noddy took some tea and ate a couple of ship biscuits with a good relish.
12 They were frequently fed with bread made from old, worm-eaten ship biscuits , reground into meal and offensive to the smell.
13 Mrs. Lavarello brought us some ship biscuits , of which she got a bushel and a half in exchange for a goose.
14 It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits , and salted pork cut up into little flakes!
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