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Webster 1913 Edition


Hard-tack

Hard′tackˊ

or

Hard′-tackˊ

(härd′tăkˊ)
,
Noun.
1.
A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of unleavened hard biscuit or sea bread. Called also
pilot biscuit
,
pilot bread
,
ship biscuit
and
ship bread