What does ship biscuit mean?

ship biscuit means "very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple".

What is another word for ship biscuit?

Close synonyms include hardtack, pilot biscuit, pilot bread, sea biscuit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ship biscuit a common word?

ship biscuit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

ship biscuit — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple
Synonymshardtack pilot biscuit pilot bread sea biscuit
Broaderbiscuit

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What does ship biscuit mean?: ship biscuit means "very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple".
What is another word for ship biscuit?

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