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PRONUNCIATION OF SHIP'S BISCUIT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHIP'S BISCUIT

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Ship's biscuit is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SHIP'S BISCUIT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

ship's biscuit

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.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHIP'S BISCUIT

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shipbuilder
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WORDS THAT END LIKE SHIP'S BISCUIT

biscuit
Bourbon biscuit
captain´s biscuit
chocolate biscuit
circuit
closed circuit
digestive biscuit
dog biscuit
exclusive OR circuit
pilot biscuit
ratafia biscuit
rich tea biscuit
sea biscuit
shark biscuit
soda biscuit
take the biscuit
Tararua biscuit
tea biscuit
the circuit
water biscuit

Synonyms and antonyms of ship's biscuit in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «ship's biscuit» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

船上的饼干
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

galleta de la nave
570 millions of speakers

English

ship´s biscuit
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जहाज के बिस्कुट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بسكويت السفينة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

печенье судна
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

biscoito de navio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জাহাজের বিস্কুট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

biscuits de mer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Biskut kapal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schiffszwieback
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

船のビスケット
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

선박의 비스켓
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Biskuit kapal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bánh tàu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கப்பல் பிஸ்கட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जहाजांचे बिस्किट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Geminin bisküvi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

biscotto della nave
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

herbatniki statku
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

печиво судна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

biscuit navei
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μπισκότο πλοίου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skip se koekie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skeppsskorpor
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skipets kjeks
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ship's biscuit

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHIP'S BISCUIT»

The term «ship's biscuit» is barely ever used and occupies the 196.371 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHIP'S BISCUIT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ship's biscuit

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHIP'S BISCUIT»

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Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command
Ditto - 3 April »> 28 bags 28 - - Common Ship's Biscuit. Southampton - 25 March - » 26 bags - - - 19 3 5 - ditto. Leith ... 25 February >» 220 barrels - 385 - - Wheat Flour. Ditto - 9 March - i* 1 bag .... 1 - - Captains' Biscuit. Ditto - 15 April it 39 bags  ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1843
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Nelson's Sailors
sweetened with brown sugar - a bit of cheese, and ship's biscuit, or hard tack, made from wholemeal flour, salt and water. Ship's biscuit was often infested with weevils, so many that the men sometimes ate their biscuits at night so that the ...
Gregory Fremont-Barnes, 2005
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Food on the Move: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on ...
0 The common factor in many of these interesting, durable, and safe products is thorough dehydration and absence of fat. Banishing fat from foods to be kept for long periods was common to both the ship's biscuit, a simple dried-out baked flour ...
Harlan Walker, 1997
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Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat: Naval Slang and Its Everyday ...
The word tack is usually associated with the course of a sailing ashipbut in this instance tack does not relate to a sailing term but instead to ship's biscuit. This was a rather interesting concoction designed to solve oneofthe great seafaring ...
Martin Robson, 2012
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50 Chowders
In the early history of chowder making, ship's biscuit (also called hardtack) and common crackers were among the most important ingredients. Before potatoes were available, cooks added crumbled or powdered ship's biscuit to their ...
Jasper White, 2000
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Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century
Even the ship's biscuit had had to be unloaded from the vessel carrying it. Morosini was "agitato et afilitto;" his problems had mounted into "ineffable torments." Failure to feed the soldiers and seamen would lead to disaster, threatening the ...
Kenneth Meyer Setton, 1991
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The Boat Cookbook: Real Food for Hungry Sailors
Jump forward to the eighteenth century and a seaman's supper would have consisted largely of ship's biscuit, salted meat and lots of booze. There were other ingredients that livened things up, such as dried peas, oatmeal, pork, butter and ...
Fiona Sims, 2014
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New-York Farmer, and American Gardener's Magazine
k ' The advantages claimed for the new, over the old method of preparing ship's biscuit, are, superior economy and ex. pedition, greater cleanliness in the process, and a better quality in the manufactured article. The mode of making ship's ...
‎1834
9
A Tale of Two Colonies: What Really Happened in Virginia and ...
41 But the little fleet was still together, and passengers aboard the ships carried on that morning as usual, eating a breakfast of porridge or ship's biscuit and salted beef, pork, or codfish. Ship's biscuit was a staple of shipboard larders.
Virginia Bernhard, 2011
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VENICE FROM THE GROUND UP
The bakery produced ship's biscuit or hardtack, the virtually incorruptible and easily transportable unleavened bread that sailors in the Republic's galleys were fed. A store of biscuit produced here in 1668 and uncovered three centuries later  ...
James H MCGREGOR, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHIP'S BISCUIT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ship's biscuit is used in the context of the following news items.
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M&S showcases the Welsh suppliers coming to the Royal Welsh Show
You can tuck into Ship's Biscuits, supplied by Pembrokeshire Beach Food Company, which are savoury fish-shaped crackers baked with laver seaweed and ... «WalesOnline, Jul 15»
2
Arnott's celebrates 150 years - The West Australian
Everybody loves a birthday and biscuit giant Arnott's is celebrating a milestone ... From humble beginnings baking pies and ship's biscuits from a small shopfront ... «The West Australian, May 15»
3
Food: Chris Rundle's Easter biscuit recipes
Ship's biscuits, or hard tack, which were particularly durable and so solid they had to be soaked before they could be eaten, accompanied British sailors on ... «Western Daily Press, Mar 15»
4
Quick Bites: Saltie Sandwich Shop Transforms Into Mr. Curry At Night
But to see Williamsburg's beloved Saltie, the place that launched a thousand Ship's Biscuit Instagrams, like that? Downright bizarre. And yet that's the current ... «Gothamist, Feb 15»
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The Dining Innovations That Helped Us Conquer the Seas
A Byzantine ship found near the island of Yassi Ada in Turkey features the first ... wine, honey, molasses, and the dry, rock-hard bread known as “ship's biscuit,” ... «Wired, Jan 15»
6
Penarth artist celebrates Cardiff's curious landmarks at festival
... of Alex holding a biscuit; not just any biscuit, but a Ship's Biscuit – another piece of the city's maritime history created by the city's once famous Spillers bakery. «Penarth Times, Oct 14»
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Why are 'Biscuits' Different in Britain?
This was a very practical form of food for a seafaring nation, and a ship's biscuit, or hard tack, was baked up to four times to ensure it did not spoil on long ... «Anglophenia, Oct 14»
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Grand old Marie: Named after Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrova …
Before that biscuits had existed mostly as ship's biscuits — a hard, plain snack produced on a large scale and meant to serve as long-lasting rations on ships. «Economic Times, Apr 14»
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Dish No. 93: The Ship's Biscuit at Saltie
The biscuit's attributes are as generous as its proportions -- the eggs are rich and fluffy, the ricotta creamy, and the bread salty and tender. It's also messy as hell, ... «Village Voice, Jul 11»
10
Cooking To Feed The Navy
You ate, you know, you're like, Mondays you ate ship's biscuit with salt beef, and you might have a few other little things to go along with that and you made a ... «KPBS, Jun 10»

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