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HARDTACK
Definition of HARDTACK
noun
A large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships.
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Other senses
HARDTACK carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A hard biscuit or bread made with only flour and water.
noun
Large, coarse, hard biscuit baked without salt and kiln-dried, much used by sailors and soldiers: ship-biscuit.
noun
Same as hardhead, 6.
noun
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
Where it comes from
From hard + tack. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, HARDTACK · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HARDTACK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 86 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 50, 9 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 50, 9 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HARDTACK starts with H and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read AACDHKRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start HARDTA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 50
Could you have found HARDTACK?
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