hardtack
has definitions from the fields of chemistry,nautical,food,botany
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[ noun ] (chemistry,nautical,food) very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple
Synonyms Used in print (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)Beyond that misty gray of the rain , he saw the stretching hutment , low diminutive log_cabins , chinked with mud , with doorways a man would have_to crouch to get through , with roofs of tenting laid_over boughs or boards from hardtack boxes , or fence_rails , with cranky chimneys of sticks and dried mud . He saw Mose squatting by the hearth , breaking_up hardtack into a pan . He dumped the pan of crumbled hardtack into the boiling pot of lobscouse . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (botany) a mountain mahogany
Used in print (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)Pullen_James humbly lowered his head , pushed_aside the hardtack box door of the hut , and was gone from sight . Related terms |
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