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pilot bread

Hardtack \Hard"tack`\ or Hard-tack \Hard"-tack`\(h[aum]rd"t[a^]k`), 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.
    --MW10

Wiktionary
pilot bread

n. hardtack

WordNet
pilot bread

n. very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple [syn: hardtack, pilot biscuit, sea biscuit, ship biscuit]

Usage examples of "pilot bread".

Siri had taken a tray with tea and pilot bread to him the previous afternoon, as he had requested, but she had refused to linger when he invited her inside.

Lockwood kept a list of the dishes he missed most: turkey stuffed with oysters, Boston pilot bread, oatmeal muffins, corn fritters.

This consisted of oatmeal and cream kept hermetically sealed in glass, a dish of roast grouse, coffee, pilot bread, a bottle of Sauterne, and another of Rhine wine.