- Hard Tack
Hard Tack may refer to:
*
Hard Tack (horse)
*Hardtack , a kind of biscuit
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
Hard Tack
Look at other dictionaries:
hard|tack — «HAHRD TAK», noun. a very hard, dry biscuit, eaten especially by sailors, and sometimes by soldiers; ship biscuit; pilot biscuit; sea biscuit; sea bread. Hardtack resists spoiling … Useful english dictionary
Hard-tack — Hardtack Hard tack or Hard tack Hard tack (h[aum]rd t[a^]k ), n. 1. A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of unleavened hard biscuit or sea bread. Called also {pilot biscuit}, {pilot bread}, {ship biscuit} and {ship bread} [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Hard Tack Come Again No More — Hard Tack, Come Again No More is an American Civil War era parody of the song Hard Times, Come Again No More. First called Hard Crackers, Come Again No More! , it is a sarcastic complaint about the quality of some of the provisions provided by… … Wikipedia
Hard Tack (horse) — Thoroughbred racehorse infobox horsename = Hard Tack caption = sire = Man o War dam = Tea Biscuit damsire = Rock Sand sex = Stallion foaled = 1926 country = United States Flagicon|USA colour = Chestnut breeder = Wheatley Stable owner = Wheatley… … Wikipedia
Hard Tack and Coffee — Infobox Book | name = Hardtack Coffee title orig = translator = image caption = author = John D. Billings illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = memoir publisher = release date = 1887 english… … Wikipedia
hard tack — noun archaic hard dry bread or biscuit, especially as rations for sailors or soldiers … English new terms dictionary
hard tack — Everyday English Slang in Ireland n spirits (usually whiskey), neat … English dialects glossary
hard-tack — … Useful english dictionary
tack — I. /tæk / (say tak) noun 1. a short, sharp pointed nail or pin, usually with a flat and comparatively large head. 2. a stitch, especially a long stitch used in fastening seams, etc., preparatory to a more thorough sewing. 3. a fastening,… …
tack — English has three distinct words tack. The oldest, meaning ‘nail or other fastening’ [14], comes from Old Northern French taque, a variant of Old French tache ‘nail, fastening’. This was borrowed from prehistoric Germanic, but the nature of its… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
