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Very hard unsalted biscuit or bread
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hardtack
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1836, "ship's biscuit," from hard (adj.) + tack (n.3); soft-tack was soft wheaten bread.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hardtack is a set of rules for American Civil War miniature wargaming by Lou Zocchi . It was published as a thirty-page pamphlet by Guidon Games in 1971 , with an introduction by Gary Gygax and artwork by Don Lowry . Hardtack was the first set of American ...
Usage examples of hardtack.
He knew they were trading with the Yankees, that when the armies were close, the men along the picket lines would make their own quiet armistice, swapping their tobacco for coffee, newspapers for hardtack.
On the expedition to the Southern Territories, Tzetzas had seen that Raj sailed with weevily hardtack and bunker coal that was half shale.
He wouldn't go hungry, as he still had his last three or four hardtacks from Washington.
Murphv savs as how salt pork and hardtack is good enough for evcrN crew he's had to feed for thirty ycar-given figgy-doNvdy or plum duff for pudding, and beef on Sundays, too-though if that's beef, I'm a Chinaman -and it's good enough for us," Gordon burst in.
When weather drove her from the foredeck, she went to the ship's galley, where she revealed a gift for turning hardtack into a sort of doughy pudding much favored by the crew.