hardtack, pilot biscuit, pilot bread, sea biscuit, ship biscuit
(noun) very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship’s staple
hardtack
(noun) a mountain mahogany
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hardtack (countable and uncountable, plural hardtacks)
(nautical) A large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships.
Synonyms: Anzac wafer, sheet iron, tooth duller, worm castle (all military slang)
• (hard biscuit): pilot biscuit, pilot bread, sea biscuit, sea bread, ship's biscuit, ship biscuit
Source: Wiktionary
Hard"-tack`, n.
Definition: A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
