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PRONUNCIATION OF HARD TACK

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HARD TACK

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Hard tack is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HARD TACK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

hard tack

Hardtack

Hardtack is a simple type of cracker or biscuit, made from flour, water, and sometimes salt. Inexpensive and long-lasting, it was and is used for sustenance in the absence of perishable foods, commonly during long sea voyages and military campaigns. The name derives from the British sailor slang for food, "tack." It is known by other names such as pilot bread, ship's biscuit, shipbiscuit, sea biscuit, cabin bread, sea bread or pejoratively "dog biscuits", "tooth dullers", "sheet iron", "worm castles", or "molar breakers". Australian and New Zealand military personnel knew them with some sarcasm as ANZAC wafers.

Definition of hard tack in the English dictionary

The definition of hard tack in the dictionary is whisky.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HARD TACK

hard pad
hard palate
hard paste
hard porn
hard power
hard put
hard right
hard rock
hard roe
hard rubber
hard sauce
hard science
hard scientist
hard sell
hard shoulder
hard standing
hard tick
hard up
hard wheat
hard yards

WORDS THAT END LIKE HARD TACK

anxiety attack
arson attack
attack
Blu-tack
chimney stack
counterattack
Cuttack
haystack
heart attack
line of attack
on the wrong tack
panic attack
rocket attack
smokestack
stack
suicide attack
tack
the attack
thumbtack
tie tack

Synonyms and antonyms of hard tack in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hard tack» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HARD TACK

Find out the translation of hard tack to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hard tack from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hard tack» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

压缩饼干
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tachuela dura
570 millions of speakers

English

hard tack
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मुश्किल कील
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تك الصعب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Только легкий
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tack duro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হার্ড tack
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

amure dur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Taktik keras
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hartbrot
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

カンパン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

하드 압정
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hard tack
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tack cứng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடின டேக்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कठोर करणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

galeta
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pane duro
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

trudno hals
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тільки легкий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Tack greu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σκληρό καρφί
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hard ryg
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hårda please
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hardt tack
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hard tack

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HARD TACK»

The term «hard tack» is normally little used and occupies the 130.900 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HARD TACK» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hard tack

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HARD TACK»

Discover the use of hard tack in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hard tack and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hard Tack
Aboard the Easy Girl, a sixty-two-foot sloop, for a high-society party, Cat Marsala is soon investigating a murder when one of the party's high-profile guests is found murdered. Reprint. AB. PW.
Barbara D'Amato, 1992
2
Hard Tack and Coffee
The usual medley of comie songs and negro melodies comprised the greater part of the entertainment, and, if the space admitted, a jig or clog dance was stepped out on a hard-tack box or other crude platform. Sometimes a real negro was ...
John D. Billings, 2009
3
Raw Pork and Hard Tack: A Civil War Memoir from Manassas to ...
Robert Catlett Cave of Orange County, Virginia, promised his dying father that he would serve Virginia as long as she might need his services.
Robert Catlett Cave, Walbrook Davis Swank, 1996
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The United States Service Magazine
" Do you want to be a soldier? Now's the time to put in play What your good old granny told you Of the Revolution day! What had their brave jaws to chew? Sometimes nothing — what have you? Jolly hard-tack, tack, tack, tack, That's the stuff ...
‎1865
5
Dictionary of Newfoundland English
T 168/71-65 [The Doctor in the mummers' play] had a clawed hammer coat on. an ' a hard hat hard-tack [haeud 'taek, 'haeud taek, 'hand tak]: see hard bread above. 1869 HOWLEY MS Reminiscences 26 Their diet consisted of hard tack and ...
George Morley Story, W. J. Kirwin, John David Allison Widdowson, 1990
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Hard Tack and Coffee: Soldier's Life in the Civil War
Originally published in 1888, Hard Tack and Coffee became an immediate best seller. Its author, John Billings, had served with the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War.
John Davis Billings, 2007
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Bullettin United States Sanitary Commission: Numbers 1 to 12
Din-r. nau- nm'r. LOW mar. Dinner. Dinner. Dinner. Beef or pork, 4 oz. Meat, 2 oz. No meat. Potatoes, 4 oz. Potatoes, 3 oz. Potatoes, 2 oz. Hard-tack, 3 oz. Hard- tack, 2 oz. Hard-tack, 1 oz. Breakfast and led. Breakfast and lea. Breakfast and tea.
‎1866
8
United States Sanitary Commission Bulletin
Meat, 2 oz. No meat. Potatoes, 4 oz. Potatoes, 3 oz. Potatoes, 2 oz. Hard-tack, 3 oz. Hard-tack, 2 oz. Hard-tack, 1 oz. ' Breakfast andtea. Breakfast and tea. Breakfast and tea. Coffee or tea, 1 pt. Coffee or tea, 1 pt. Cofl'ee or tea, 1 pt. Rice, 2 gills.
‎1866
9
Candy Cookbook
Get a taste of Gooseberry Patch in this collection of over 20 favorite candy recipes!
‎2011
10
Two Years Before the What?
Fortunately some one with the necessary experience and forethought had provided old fashioned 'hard tack' as part of the ships supplies. Biff recalled his Uncle Jacks stories about hard tack and how he'd had to live on these rock hard biscuits ...
Wilfred Gordon, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HARD TACK»

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Caspar Collins Days features Dutch oven cooking competition
... rainstorms often delayed supplies; therefore, the soldiers had to rely on things that could be stored for long periods of time, such as hard tack. «Casper Journal, Jul 15»
2
A new world, and a touch of fun
They were bakers, making the hard tack biscuits that fed the hungry sailors etching the ribbons of trade routes that would change the world. «Toronto Star, Jul 15»
3
America's Best Racing Art Contest Finalists Announced
"Hard Tack" by William Wilson is one of 10 finalists in the inaugural ABR Equine Art Challenge. NEW YORK CITY- From a pool of entries ... «America's Best Racing, Jul 15»
4
Distributed Endurance: Logistics and Distributed Lethality
Life on-board the hunter killer Surface Action Groups (SAGs) will be less comfortable, but it does not have to regress to the days of hard tack ... «CIMSEC, Jul 15»
5
Campers learn about history
Food was mostly basic. Many pioneers ate hard tack on their journey. It has three simple ingredients, flour, water and salt. “It's terrible, but better ... «Scottsbluff Star Herald, Jul 15»
6
Steven Colbert Interviews Eminem on Monroe Michigan Public …
... the introduction of “Jimmy Monroe's Hard Tack Biscuit, and comically pretending to not knowing who “Marshall Mathers” aka Eminem was. «Hell Yeah Detroit, Jul 15»
7
Become a WW1 light railway soldier for a day with a1917 Tracks to …
You can also anticipate a midday meal of hard tack biscuits and a mess can full of tea in the trenches, although MRT does confirm you can opt ... «Rail.co.uk, Jun 15»
8
New England Patriots' Dan Connolly Likely to Retire, Per Mike Reiss
When it comes to players who are skating out of their primes, the Patriots take a hard tack. They aren't afraid to cut loose a player that's about to ... «Musket Fire, Jun 15»
9
Gettysburg 152: Re-enactments to debut new activities
Photo by Evening Sun. Re-enactor Tyler Martin, 13, tries some hard tack during a Civil War battle re-enactment in 2006. «witf.org, Jun 15»
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John B Keane: A good wit was always appreciated, recalls budding …
Even when he was off the hard tack he insisted on calling. Sean O'Shea was probably the best friend Behan ever had. Behan rarely had more ... «Limerick Leader, Jun 15»

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