Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hardtack

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.76 in modern English

Syllables: hard-tack
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Meronym: reefer's nut"
"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."
"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!"

Etymology

From hard + tack.

Usage

Inflected Forms

hardtacks (plural) hard tack (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

soft tack

Synonyms

pilot biscuit pilot bread sea biscuit sea bread ship's biscuit ship biscuit ship bread Anzac wafer sheet iron tooth duller worm castle

Questions

What does hardtack mean?: A large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships.
Where does hardtack come from?: From hard + tack.

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