ship's biscuit

English

Noun

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

  1. (nautical) hardtack
    • 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 nothing else to do but to offer him one of my good Swede’s ship’s biscuits I had in my pocket.
    • 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 21, in Klee Wyck‎:
      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.

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