hardtack
Noun
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Noun
hardtack
- (nautical) A large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships.
- Synonyms: Anzac wafer, sheet iron, tooth duller, worm castle qual all military slang
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-51999-4, page 71:
- Bread and fodder had to be brought up over longer and longer distances, it was more difficult all the time, transport was lacking, the army had already eaten two-thirds of its hardtack, exhausted men were marching in baking heat along sandy roads into emptiness!
- (hard biscuit) pilot biscuit, pilot bread, sea biscuit, sea bread, ship's biscuit, ship biscuit
- French: biscuit de mer, galette
- German: Hartkeks
- Italian: galletta
- Russian: суха́рь
- Spanish: galleta náutica
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