Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
ship's biscuit en · NOUN
Meanings
-
(countable, uncountable) hardtack
I found a ship's biscuit and a wizened apple in my sketch sack. They smelled of turpentine and revolted my appetite. At dusk I ate them greedily.
1941, Emily Carr, chapter 21, in Klee Wyck:I found nothing else to do but to offer him one of my good Swede’s ship’s biscuits I had in my pocket.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 206:
Forms