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hardtack en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From hard + tack.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships.
   • Meronym: reefer's nut
   • Bread and fodder had to be brought up over longer and longer distances, it was more difficult all the time, transport was lacking, the army had already eaten two-thirds of its hardtack, exhausted men were marching in baking heat along sandy roads into emptiness! 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 71:
   • Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack. 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

Forms

Coordinates

soft tack

Hypernyms

tack · bread · biscuit

Synonyms

Anzac wafer · ship biscuit · sea biscuit · pilot biscuit · ship bread · sea bread · tooth duller · pilot bread · sheet iron · ship's biscuit · worm castle

Translations (44)

cmn 壓縮餅乾 /压缩饼干 (hard biscuit) · eo marbiskvito (hard biscuit) · sv hårdskorpa (hard biscuit) · hu kétszersült (hard biscuit) · sv rågskorpa (hard biscuit) · nl tweebak (hard biscuit) · pt biscoito de bordo (hard biscuit) · cs suchar (hard biscuit) · ru суха́рь (hard biscuit) · be галета (hard biscuit) · ja 乾パン (hard biscuit) · cmn 硬麵餅 /硬面饼 (hard biscuit) · bg сухар (hard biscuit) · he מַצִּיָּה (hard biscuit) · fi laivakorppu (hard biscuit) · ca galeta de mar (hard biscuit) · he פַּכְסַם מַלָּחִים (hard biscuit) · nl scheepsbeschuit (hard biscuit) · de Hartkeks (hard biscuit) · ko 건빵 (hard biscuit) · sv skeppsskorpa (hard biscuit) · io navala bisquito (hard biscuit) · es galleta náutica (hard biscuit) · et kuivik (hard biscuit) · nl zeekaak (hard biscuit) · de Zwieback (hard biscuit) · it galletta (hard biscuit) · de Schiffszwieback (hard biscuit) · ik qaqquliktaq (hard biscuit) · ja 堅パン (hard biscuit) · pl suchar (hard biscuit) · fr galette (hard biscuit) · la bucellatum (hard biscuit) · pt biscoito do mar (hard biscuit) · pt biscoito de navio (hard biscuit) · uk галета (hard biscuit) · tr peksimet (hard biscuit) · fr biscuit de mer (hard biscuit) · he פכסם (hard biscuit) · ik qaqqulaaq (hard biscuit) · cmn 硬麵包 /硬面包 (hard biscuit) · fa بیسکویت دریایی (hard biscuit) · nl zeebeschuit (hard biscuit) · hu tengerészkeksz (hard biscuit)