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hard-shell clam |
hard-shell crab |
hard-shelled |
hard-skinned puffball |
hard-surfaced |
hard-tack
| hard-to-please
| hard-visaged
| hard-wired
| hard-won
| hardass
hard-tack
CIDE DICTIONARY
hard-tack, n.
- 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 andship bread [1913 Webster] - Any of several mahogany trees, esp. the
Cercocarpus betuloides . [PJC]
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