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bilby commented on the word hard tack
"It is known by other names such as pilot bread (as rations for bush pilots), ship's biscuit, sea biscuit, sea bread (as rations for sailors) or pejoratively 'dog biscuits', 'tooth dullers', 'sheet iron' or "molar breakers'."
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October 20, 2008