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Definition of Hardtack
1. Noun. Very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple.
2. Noun. A mountain mahogany.
Definition of Hardtack
1. n. A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread.
Definition of Hardtack
1. Noun. (nautical) A large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hardtack
1. a hard biscuit [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hardtack
Literary usage of Hardtack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Thirty-ninth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862-1865 by Alfred Seelye Roe (1914)
"How oft in our marches, he's braced up our courage, As with gnawing and growling
we've hobbled along; Oh! well may the hardtack, the old army hardtack Prove ..."
2. The Rate of Interest: Its Nature, Determination and Relation to Economic by Irving Fisher (1907)
"No one would lend 100 pounds of hardtack to-day for 95 receivable a year ...
Hence, exchanges of present for future hardtack could not exist, except at par. ..."
3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... tuck (slang), crug (slang, Eng.), tack (chiefly in "hardtack"); spec, ration,
board, fare, ... hardtack ..."
4. Corporal Si Klegg and His "pard". by Wilbur F. Hinman (1887)
"When the regiment got orders to pull out, Company Q drew several boxes of hardtack
that the boys had heard so much about. As the orderly pried open the ..."
5. A Dictionary of the Drama: A Guide to the Plays, Play-wrights, Players, and by William Davenport Adams (1904)
"... hardtack in • The Bookmaker' (1891), .V'% Saunders in * Formosa,' and Virginia
.... hardtack ..."
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