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captain's biscuit

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noun

  1. a type of hard fancy biscuit

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A few blows with the handspike shattered the top, and eagerly plunging in my hand, to my intense satisfaction I drew forth a captain’s biscuit.

From Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures by Groome, William H. C.

A captain's biscuit would perhaps not be inappropriate?'

From The Magic City by Millar, H. R. (Harold Robert)

Cooking was naturally out of the question, and our only food that day consisted of a captain's biscuit, some bottled beer, and a tin of preserved plum pudding!

From On the Equator by De Windt, Harry

He had brought me a captain’s biscuit and a slice of ham, with a tin mug of water.

From Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures by Groome, William H. C.

Their grateful coolness made the man my friend eternally, but had I offered him a captain's biscuit at that moment I could not have answered for the consequences.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by