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hardback

English

Etymology

hard +? back, formed in analogy to earlier paperback.

Pronunciation

Noun

hardback (plural hardbacks)

  1. A book with a solid binding.

Coordinate terms

  • paperback
  • softback

Translations

Adjective

hardback (not comparable)

  1. (of a book) Having a solid binding.

Synonyms

  • hardcover

Translations

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hardtack

English

Alternative forms

  • hard tack

Noun

hardtack (countable and uncountable, plural hardtacks)

  1. (nautical) A large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships.
    Synonyms: Anzac wafer, sheet iron, tooth duller, worm castle (all military slang)
    • 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ?ISBN, page 71:
      Bread and fodder had to be brought up over longer and longer distances, it was more difficult all the time, transport was lacking, the army had already eaten two-thirds of its hardtack, exhausted men were marching in baking heat along sandy roads into emptiness!

Synonyms

  • (hard biscuit): pilot biscuit, pilot bread, sea biscuit, sea bread, ship's biscuit, ship biscuit

Translations

See also

  • reefer's nut
  • soft tack

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