hardtack
3
9.9
- noun
- /ˈhɑrdˌtæk/
- Archaic
:
galleta dura
- As he scrambled along, he munched on a hardtack from the Yankee cavalryman's haversack.
- hardtack biscuits
- hardtack and salt pork
- hardtack and salt
Examples
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Stock up on hardtack, salted beef, bread and chocolate, and all the medical supplies we need.
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Two ounces of hardtack a day per man.
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We filled everything we could find, intending to eat the sugar with our hardtack while going up the river.
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They chewed on dried salt pork and hardtack.
Fiction book (2000) -
"Still quiet, sir, but some of the men are grumbling because they aren't allowed to eat the food here and are stuck with hardtack and salt pork."
Fiction book (1990) -
After plundering the haversacks of the black troops they'd fought, they had plenty of hardtack and salt pork.
Fiction book (1992) -
Caudell choked down a couple of Yankee hardtack biscuits.
Fiction book (1992) -
And though she was hungry, she was also too fatigued to gnaw on the piece of hardtack that was secreted deep in the pocket of her skirt.
Fiction book (1999) -
The sailors packed plenty of hardtack for their long journey at sea.
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Despite its toughness, hardtack was a vital source of nutrition during military campaigns.
Synonyms
A very hard unsalted biscuit sailors used to eat on long sea voyages
A very hard dry bread sailors soaked before eating on long sea trips
A very hard plain biscuit that keeps for a long time and sailors use on ships
A very hard dry biscuit that sailors kept on ships to eat
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Morphology
Etymology
Hardtack is made of hard and tack, and tack was an old sailor's word for 'food'. So hardtack is literally a very 'hard' piece of food that sailors and soldiers kept for long trips.