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ship's biscuit

ship's biscuit noun: hardtack.

Noun

ship's biscuit (countable and uncountable, plural ship's biscuits)

  1. hardtack
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of ship's biscuit

pluralship's biscuits

Questions about ship's biscuit

What does ship's biscuit mean?
Ship's biscuit means hardtack.
What part of speech is ship's biscuit?
Ship's biscuit is a noun.
What is the plural of ship's biscuit?
The plural of ship's biscuit is ship's biscuits.

Words near ship's biscuit in the dictionary

  1. ship track
  2. ship tracks
  3. ship war
  4. ship wars
  5. ship's bells
  6. ship's biscuit
  7. ship's biscuits
  8. ship's boat
  9. ship's boats
  10. ship's boy
  11. ship's boys

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