I know you have a sweet ass, Dave - I'm just teasing you to suppress my deeply-buried desires...
Cookie - So, you're a walking dictionary now? Here's some more words for you, try and define those... 😀
Athwart-hawse, Baggywrinkle, Barber Hauler, Barkentine, Razee, Scantling, Scuppers, Shank-Painter, Vang, Viol, Xebec
Good luck!
And here's one from me:
Biscuit: "Bread intended for naval or military expeditions is now simply flour well kneaded, with the least possible quantity of water, into flat cakes and slowly baked."
It has been around for a long time - Pliny(c. AD 100) calls it 'panis nauticus'. Hard tack was another name for ship's biscuit and became a common term in the 1830s and 1840s.
Good biscuit was supposed to be one third heavier than the flour from which it was made. It was normally kept in cloth bags and rapidly became a home to weevils - no doubt increasing the protein content. It would keep for many years and was a major staple in ships until the advent of shipboard bakeries in the early years of the 20th Century.
Admiral Smyth's "Sailor's Word Book" (1867)
Cookie - So, you're a walking dictionary now? Here's some more words for you, try and define those... 😀
Athwart-hawse, Baggywrinkle, Barber Hauler, Barkentine, Razee, Scantling, Scuppers, Shank-Painter, Vang, Viol, Xebec
Good luck!
And here's one from me:
Biscuit: "Bread intended for naval or military expeditions is now simply flour well kneaded, with the least possible quantity of water, into flat cakes and slowly baked."
It has been around for a long time - Pliny(c. AD 100) calls it 'panis nauticus'. Hard tack was another name for ship's biscuit and became a common term in the 1830s and 1840s.
Good biscuit was supposed to be one third heavier than the flour from which it was made. It was normally kept in cloth bags and rapidly became a home to weevils - no doubt increasing the protein content. It would keep for many years and was a major staple in ships until the advent of shipboard bakeries in the early years of the 20th Century.
Admiral Smyth's "Sailor's Word Book" (1867)
