Sailors were forced to eat hardtack biscuits on long journeys across the sea.
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Hardtack
Synonyms for "hardtack" (18 found)
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Closest matches (4)
Noun(4 words)
Strong matches (5)
Noun(3 words)
Related words (9)
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1 entriesderived from
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1 entriesinstance of
2 entriesis a
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9 entriesTranslations
44 translations across 27 languages.
Belarusian
1 entries- галета noun (hard biscuit)
Bulgarian
1 entries- сухар noun (hard biscuit)
Catalan
1 entries- galeta de mar noun (hard biscuit)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 壓縮餅乾 /压缩饼干 noun (hard biscuit)
- 硬麵包 /硬面包 noun (hard biscuit)
- 硬麵餅 /硬面饼 noun (hard biscuit)
Czech
1 entries- suchar noun (hard biscuit)
Dutch
4 entries- scheepsbeschuit noun (hard biscuit)
- tweebak noun (hard biscuit)
- zeebeschuit noun (hard biscuit)
- zeekaak noun (hard biscuit)
Esperanto
1 entries- marbiskvito noun (hard biscuit)
Estonian
1 entries- kuivik noun (hard biscuit)
Finnish
1 entries- laivakorppu noun (hard biscuit)
French
2 entries- biscuit de mer noun (hard biscuit)
- galette noun (hard biscuit)
German
3 entries- Hartkeks noun (hard biscuit)
- Schiffszwieback noun (hard biscuit)
- Zwieback noun (hard biscuit)
Hebrew
3 entries- מַצִּיָּה noun (hard biscuit)
- פַּכְסַם מַלָּחִים noun (hard biscuit)
- פכסם noun (hard biscuit)
Hungarian
2 entries- kétszersült noun (hard biscuit)
- tengerészkeksz noun (hard biscuit)
Ido
1 entries- navala bisquito noun (hard biscuit)
Inupiaq
2 entries- qaqqulaaq noun (hard biscuit)
- qaqquliktaq noun (hard biscuit)
Italian
1 entries- galletta noun (hard biscuit)
Japanese
2 entries- 乾パン noun (hard biscuit)
- 堅パン noun (hard biscuit)
Korean
1 entries- 건빵 noun (hard biscuit)
Latin
1 entries- bucellatum noun (hard biscuit)
Persian
1 entries- بیسکویت دریایی noun (hard biscuit)
Polish
1 entries- suchar noun (hard biscuit)
Portuguese
3 entries- biscoito de bordo noun (hard biscuit)
- biscoito de navio noun (hard biscuit)
- biscoito do mar noun (hard biscuit)
Russian
1 entries- суха́рь noun (hard biscuit)
Spanish
1 entries- galleta náutica noun (hard biscuit)
Swedish
3 entries- hårdskorpa noun (hard biscuit)
- rågskorpa noun (hard biscuit)
- skeppsskorpa noun (hard biscuit)
Turkish
1 entries- peksimet noun (hard biscuit)
Ukrainian
1 entries- галета noun (hard biscuit)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Meronym: reefer's nut
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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!
Source: wiktionary
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