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sea bread

sea bread noun: synonym of hardtack.

Noun

sea bread (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Synonym of hardtack.
    • He missed his eggs and bacon, and his teeth were not too good for the grinding of hard sea bread. "Have some bread, Mr. Casy. This tack seems prime to me, not a worm, mind you, and that coffee's been around the Horn, if it is coffee. […]1933, Felix Riesenberg, Mother Sea, page 31
    Synonyms:
    hardtack

Synonyms of sea bread

Questions about sea bread

What does sea bread mean?
Sea bread means synonym of hardtack.
What part of speech is sea bread?
Sea bread is a noun.

Words near sea bread in the dictionary

  1. sea boys
  2. sea brant
  3. sea brants
  4. sea breach
  5. sea breaches
  6. sea bread
  7. sea bream
  8. sea breams
  9. sea breeze
  10. sea breezes
  11. sea brief

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