Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Ship-biscuit; sea-bread.
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Examples
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"One moment --" And before he could protest, Frona had poured the sea-biscuit into the frying-pan on top of the grease and bacon.
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Then he threw the sodden thing out of doors and dumped the contents of a sea-biscuit bag upon a camp cloth.
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The sea-biscuit had been crumbled into chips and fragments and generously soaked by the rain till it had become a mushy, pulpy mass of dirty white.
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My contribution was canned beef fried with crumbled sea-biscuit and water.
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As for us, poor passengers, any port would have been welcome to us; especially, as not only our fresh provisions, except a great number of old ducks and fowls, but even our bread was come to an end, and nothing but sea-biscuit remained, which I could not chew.
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Some potted meat, dried fish, sea-biscuit, and a pot of ale so strong that I had to mix it with water, such was the meal to which I did full justice.
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Then came the same wearisome old toast, dry and hard to chew upon as a musty sea-biscuit, which had been the text of nearly all the oratory of my public career.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various
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His gaze rested on the sea-biscuit, and he lowered his eyelids to hide the laugh behind them.
All Aboard A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry
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Giving it up, finally, Hope proposed that they wear the sea-biscuit as ornaments, and see who should look most conscious when they drew near.
All Aboard A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry
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Hunger beginning to be imperiously felt, we mixed our paste of sea-biscuit [15] with a little wine, and distributed it thus prepared.
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