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Hardtack   Listen
noun
Hard-tack, Hardtack  n.  
1.
A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of unleavened hard biscuit or sea bread. Called also pilot biscuit, pilot bread, ship biscuit and ship bread
2.
Any of several mahogany trees, esp. the Cercocarpus betuloides.





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"Hardtack" Quotes from Famous Books



... narrates that the prisoners in the Basilius monastery into which soldiers of all nationalities had been driven, during 13 days received only a little hardtack, but neither wood nor a drop of water; they had to quench their thirst with the snow which covered the corpses ...
— Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812 • Achilles Rose


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