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n. (context nautical English) hardtack
Usage examples of "ship's biscuit".
With a hard round of ship's biscuit she scraped the kettle clean of every last remnant of food.
Hornblower took his cup and a piece of bread-for four months before this his only bread had been ship's biscuit-and sipped at the stuff.
Hornblower took his cup and a piece of bread for four months before this his only bread had been ship's biscuit and sipped at the stuff.
Hornblower came triumphantly into his own then, as the only person in the house who knew how ship's biscuit should be baked, and Jeanne worked under his supervision.
Fat Jeanne the cook baked biscuit for them - Hornblower came triumphantly into his own then, as the only person in the house who knew how ship's biscuit should be baked, and Jeanne worked under his supervision.
Fat Jeanne the cook baked biscuit for them Hornblower came triumphantly into his own then, as the only person in the house who knew how ship's biscuit should be baked, and Jeanne worked under his supervision.
And yet even the coco-palm must be helped in infancy with some extraneous nutriment, and through much of the low archipelago there is planted with each nut a piece of ship's biscuit and a rusty nail.
Working swiftly then, we bound and gagged Berryman and Darkling, then got into the ship's stores, taking out ship's biscuit, salt meat and a side of beef the captain had in keeping for himself.
Darvish asked, back at the rail, a ship's biscuit in one hand and a wineskin dangling from the other.
Jim had carefully packed into the bag a bundle of salted, sun-dried venison, the ubiquitous biltong of the Cape boers, ten pounds of hard ship's biscuit wrapped in a cloth, a folding knife and a triangular-bladed file that he had pilfered from the estate workshop, a tortoiseshell comb, which belonged to his mother, and a letter written on a single sheet of paper in Dutch.
It was not much of a breakfast for supplies were getting low on the Pucelle and the officers, like the men, subsisted on short rations of beef, ship's biscuit and Scotch coffee which was a vile concoction of burned bread dissolved in hot water and sweetened with sugar.
Yesterday, a score casks of ship's biscuit had been donated by a well-wisher who insisted on remaining anonymous.
Close enough to the enemy to toss a ship's biscuit onto their bloody decks—.
McCool drank his quart of water eagerly, and made effort to eat the ship's biscuit and meat.