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Hard-tack   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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"Hard-tack" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sure enough, Van was waiting, and the moment he saw me coming up the ravine he quit his munching at the scanty herbage, and, with ears erect and eager eyes, came quickly toward me, whinnying welcome and inquiry at the same instant. Sugar and hard-tack, delicacies he often fancied in prosperous times, he took from my hand even now; he was too truly a gentleman at heart to refuse them when he saw they were all I had to give; but he could not understand why the big colt should ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 • Various

... wounded had been removed, yet every wounded Insurgent whom we found had a United States army canteen of water at his side, obviously left by some kindly American soldier. Not a few of the injured had been furnished hardtack as well. All were ultimately taken to Manila and there given the best of care ...
— The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2) • Dean C. Worcester

... cumbered with the chattels of the last tenant. There was no bed amongst them, but a roll of tattered carpet served me perfectly. I fell asleep over a slab of hardtack. That evening, on waking, ...
— Southern Lights and Shadows • Edited by William Dean Howells & Henry Mills Alden

... short time the boys were sitting around the small table in the cabin eagerly discussing the coffee and hardtack as if it had been the most ...
— A Voyage with Captain Dynamite • Charles Edward Rich

... biscuit) can be recommended only for such trips or cruises as do not permit baking. It is a cracker prepared of plain flour and water, not even salted, and kiln-dried to a chip, so as to keep indefinitely, its only enemies being weevils. Get the coarsest grade. To make hardtack palatable toast it until crisp, or soak in hot coffee and butter it, or at least ...
— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts

... multitudes of others, Christine and Dennis at last received an army biscuit (hardtack in the soldier's vernacular) and a tin-cup of what resembled coffee. To him it was very touching to see how eagerly she received this coarse fare, proving that she was indeed almost famished. Too weak to stand, they sat down near the door on the sidewalk. ...
— Barriers Burned Away • E. P. Roe

... bunch of ash-trees, and there I concluded to remain till night, for I considered it a very dangerous undertaking to cross the wide prairies in broad daylight, especially as my horse was a poor one. I accordingly unsaddled my animal, and ate a hearty breakfast of bacon and hardtack which I had stored in the saddle-pockets; then, after taking a smoke, I lay down to sleep, with my saddle for a pillow. In a few minutes I was ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman

... their soiled flags and began munching hardtack; Captain West came over, bringing his own rations to offer her, but she refused with a gesture, sitting there, chin propped in her palms, elbows ...
— Special Messenger • Robert W. Chambers



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