ship's biscuit

British  

noun

1. another name for hardtack

---

Example Sentences

My result was something like a ship’s biscuit, tough as old boots, with a wet, stodgy crumb and gaping holes you could lose a rodent in.

From The Guardian • Mar. 13, 2019

To this add a gill of vinegar and a ship’s biscuit broke up into small pieces.

From Newton Forster The Merchant Service by Marryat, Frederick

They ate ship's biscuit greedily, though at first sight they took it for an uncanny kind of pumice-stone.

From The Long White Cloud by Reeves, William Pember

Some had ship's biscuit, which they tried to soften in the dirty ditch water, othersPg 266 were lapping like dogs out of the puddles.

From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Gordon, Cora

Our people ate a great deal; and, being of a pleasant taste and satisfying, they left off the ship's biscuit for them.

From The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea Being The Narrative of Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries in the Australasian Regions, between the Years 1492-1606, with Descriptions of their Old Charts. by Collingridge, George