Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Soft wheaten bread, as distinguished from
hardtack , or hard sea-bread or -biscuit.
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Examples
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The gun-room steward then came back with a basket of _soft-tack_, _i. e._ loaves of bread, and told me that the marine officer requested I would allow two of the men to go up with him to Glencross's shop, to bring down some of the stores.
Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 Frederick Marryat 1820
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The gun-boat steward then came back with a basket of _soft-tack_, i.e., loaves of bread, and told me that the marine officer requested I would allow two of the men to go up with him to Glencross 'shop, to bring down some of the stores.
Peter Simple Frederick Marryat 1820
chained_bear commented on the word soft-tack
Soft bread, as opposed to hard-tack, hardtack, or "ship's biscuit."
March 16, 2008