Sailors were forced to eat hardtack biscuits on long journeys across the sea.
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Hardtack
Synonyms for "hardtack" (13 found)
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Meronym: reefer's nut
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Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
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Bread and fodder had to be brought up over longer and longer distances, it was more difficult all the time, transport was lacking, the army had already eaten two-thirds of its hardtack, exhausted men were marching in baking heat along sandy roads into emptiness!
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