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ship's biscuits

ship's biscuits is the plural of ship's biscuit.

Meaning of ship's biscuit

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

Questions about ship's biscuits

What is ship's biscuits the plural of?
Ship's biscuits is the plural of ship's biscuit.

Words near ship's biscuits in the dictionary

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

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