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hard·tack
(härd′tăk′)n.
A hard biscuit or bread made with only flour and water. Also called sea biscuit, sea bread, ship biscuit.
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hardtack
(ˈhɑːdˌtæk)n
(Cookery) a kind of hard saltless biscuit, formerly eaten esp by sailors as a staple aboard ship. Also called: pilot biscuit, ship's biscuit or sea biscuit
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hard•tack
(ˈhɑrdˌtæk)n.
a hard, saltless biscuit.
[1830–40]
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Noun | 1. | hardtack - very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple biscuit - small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda |
2. | hardtack - a mountain mahogany mahogany tree, mahogany - any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish |
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