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Sea biscuit

noun

Very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple. Synonyms: hardtack, pilot biscuit, pilot bread, ship biscuit.

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"Sea biscuit" Quotes from Famous Books

... was a square cracker about the size of an ordinary soda cracker, only thicker, and very hard and dry. It was supposed to be of the same quality as sea biscuit or pilot bread, but I never saw any equal to that article. The salt pork was usually good for pork, but it was a great trial to us all to come down to camp fare, "hardtack and pork." Sometimes ...

— War from the Inside • Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock

... you think we had in the boat with us? Cases of square-face gin and cases of dynamite. Funny, wasn't it? Well, it got funnier later on. Oh, there was a small beaker of water, a little salt horse, and some salt-water-soaked sea biscuit—enough to keep us alive ...

— The Red One • Jack London

Words linked to "Sea biscuit" : biscuit, hardtack, pilot bread, ship biscuit