| 单词 | soft tack |
| 释义 | > as lemmassoft tack soft tack n. [ < soft adj. + tack n.5] now historical (in the language of sailors) bread as distinct from ship's biscuit; cf. hardtack n. 1a.Cf. earlier soft tommy at Tommy n.1 4a. ΚΠ 1812 London Rev. June 471/1 We got tea served out at half-a-guinea a pound, or else soft tack boiled in the coppers. 1884 Cent. Mag. Nov. 110/1 We were marched to barracks,..where a half loaf of ‘soft-tack’, as we had already begun to call wheat bread, was issued. 1928 F. P. Harlow Making of Sailor (1988) vii. 147 The cabin fare was the same as ours except that they had sugar for coffee and butter on their white bread (soft-tack) with a few delicacies thrown in. 2013 J. Clark Rathbones (2014) xviii. 275 Basins of steaming burgoo, stacks of toasted soft tack, platters of grilled smelt. < as lemmas |
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