ship biscuit

[ ship bis-kit ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

First recorded in 1790–1800

They slackened their talk and began smacking their lips over ship-biscuit, marmalade, and tea.

We wound up the evening with ship-biscuit and brandy-and-water—ration brandy—French—superb.

Hand me up a plate and a fistful of ship biscuit, and leave me to deal with 'em.

On the third day the white bread had become as hard as ship-biscuit, so that we had to break it up and soak it in water.

Jim at this came running out of the cave with a face of joy, a bag of ship-biscuit, and a lot of other things.

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