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单词 ship's biscuit
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Definition of ship's biscuit in English:

ship's biscuit

noun
mass nounBritish
  • A very hard, coarse kind of biscuit formerly taken on sea voyages.

    Also called hard tack
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A new business was established in Jerez: the production of ship's biscuits for the Armada.
    • The government hadn't supplied the surveyors with tents, so they rigged bivouacs to sleep in, toasted food over the fire and munched on hard square ship's biscuits.
    • Now, Canada frequently shipped significant volumes of flour, legumes, ship's biscuit, and some lumber to Louisbourg, and lesser amounts directly to Martinique and Saint-Domingue.
    • Sebastian looked at the lone crab, pulled a few crumbs from his pocket, and dropped a bit of ship's biscuit in to him.
    • Some examples of this sort are the small oyster cracker, used on top of seafood chowders, and the crackers known as ship's biscuit (or pilot biscuit or sea biscuit).
 
 

Definition of ship's biscuit in US English:

ship's biscuit

noun
British
  • A very hard, coarse kind of biscuit formerly taken on sea voyages.

    Also called hardtack
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A new business was established in Jerez: the production of ship's biscuits for the Armada.
    • Some examples of this sort are the small oyster cracker, used on top of seafood chowders, and the crackers known as ship's biscuit (or pilot biscuit or sea biscuit).
    • The government hadn't supplied the surveyors with tents, so they rigged bivouacs to sleep in, toasted food over the fire and munched on hard square ship's biscuits.
    • Now, Canada frequently shipped significant volumes of flour, legumes, ship's biscuit, and some lumber to Louisbourg, and lesser amounts directly to Martinique and Saint-Domingue.
    • Sebastian looked at the lone crab, pulled a few crumbs from his pocket, and dropped a bit of ship's biscuit in to him.
 
 
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