In most English-speaking countries outside North America, the most common word for this is biscuit ; in many regions both terms are used, while in others the two words have different meanings.

The method of transmitting sound resonance to the cone is either a " biscuit " bridge, made of a small piece of hardwood at the vertex of the cone ( Nationals ), or a " spider " bridge, made of metal and mounted around the rim of the ( inverted ) cone ( Dobros ).

When a dog is first taught to sit, it is given a biscuit.

This is repeated until, finally, the dog sits without requiring a biscuit.

Chowder is usually thickened with broken up crackers, but some varieties are traditionally thickened with crushed ship biscuit.

It is then powdered into flour and turned into dough to either make a fired or baked biscuit.

Beschuit is a typical Dutch type of biscuit, muisjes are sugared anise seeds.

Traditional biscuits include Traou Mad, which is a full-fat butter biscuit, similar to Scottish shortbread.

The name Dobro is generically associated with the single-inverted-cone resonator design, as opposed to the tricone and biscuit designs, which are both similarly associated with the National brand.

Other popular Australian foods include Tim Tams, a chocolate biscuit ; musk sticks ; fairy bread which is buttered bread with coloured sugar ( tasting similar to store bought bread in the USA ); lamingtons ; and the commercial breakfast cereal Weet-Bix.

An Anzac biscuit is a sweet biscuit popular in Australia and New Zealand made using rolled oats, flour, desiccated coconut, sugar, butter, golden syrup, baking soda and boiling water.

A British ( though still Australian-produced ) version of the Anzac biscuit, supporting the Royal British Legion, is available in several major supermarket chains in the UK.

Another architecturally interesting building is the so-called " Clădirea biscuite " ( the biscuit building ).

* Biscuit joints: A small ' biscuit ' is used to help align an edge or butt joint when gluing.

* The couque is Europe's hardest biscuit ( American " cookie "), with a honey-sweetened flavour that is impressed with a carved wooden mould before baking.

The Basler Läckerli is a hard biscuit made of honey, almonds, candied peel and Kirsch and is enjoyed as a speciality all year round.

The Caribbean sand dollar or inflated sea biscuit, Clypeaster rosaceus, is thicker in height than most.

Seabiscuit was named for his father, as hardtack or " sea biscuit " is the name for a type of cracker eaten by sailors.

The Tunnock's teacake is commonly regarded in the same food category as the British biscuit, eaten at break times with a cup of tea as shown in advertising for the product.

The argument about whether the teacake is a biscuit or a cake led to an action in the European Court of Justice by British company Marks and Spencer who argued that it had wrongly been classed as a biscuit and taxed by the UK government as such.

The basic Royal Navy diet consisted of salted beef, salted pork, ship's biscuit, and oatmeal, supplemented with smaller quantities of peas, cheese and butter.

The Garibaldi biscuit shares many common ingredients with the Eccles Cake but is smaller and a dry product rather than a moist cake.

* Domino joiner: A trademarked tool similar to a biscuit joiner, where a piece larger than a biscuit has some of the advantages of dowels, and some of the advantages of biscuits.

The colony did not develop any significant manufacturing industry, other than sugar factories, rice mills, sawmills, and certain small-scale industries ( including a brewery, a soap factory, a biscuit factory and an oxygen-acetylene plant, among others ).

In the Appalachian Mountains, cornbread baked in a round iron skillet or in a cake pan of any shape is still referred to as a " pone " of cornbread ( as opposed to " hoe cakes ," the term for cornbread fried in pancake style ), and when biscuit dough ( i. e., " biscuits " in the American sense of the word ) is occasionally baked in one large cake rather than as separate biscuits this is called a " biscuit pone.

Osborne set out to make a product more palatable than " Granose ," a biscuit that was marketed by the Sanitarium Health Food Company at that time.

Air passes through an aluminum " biscuit " ( often called a pad ; using the term " biscuit " to emphasize the solid rather than foamy form ) which is similar to a piece of extremely coarse steel wool.

It is coarser than a roti and can be compared to a British biscuit with respect to hardness.

For example, the term biscuit is the traditional and common term rather than the American term cookie.

The Morning Coffee biscuit is rectangular rather than round but tastes very similar to the Rich Tea.

Similar festive containers are used in Europe for sweets, biscuits, cakes and chocolates, mainly at Christmas, rather than in the summer holidays and in countries with British associations, they are usually called biscuit tins.

The biscuit was originally known as the " Linzer Biscuit ", and later the " Duetch Biscuit ".

The difference between the secondary Dutch word and that of Latin origin is that, whereas the koekje is a cake that rises during baking, the biscuit, which has no raising agent, in general does not ( see gingerbread / ginger biscuit ), except for the expansion of heated air during baking.

This fact makes the biscuit joiner easy to use, because it does not require extreme accuracy or jigs to achieve perfect joints.

Through Middle French, the word was imported into the English language as " biscuit ", although in English as in Italian " biscuit " does not refer specifically to a twice-baked cookie, but applies to any type of biscuit.

At one point Shackleton gave his one biscuit allotted for the day to the ailing Frank Wild, who wrote in his diary: " All the money that was ever minted would not have bought that biscuit and the remembrance of that sacrifice will never leave me ".

They are almost always white but can often have a light to dark brown tint ( known as " biscuit "), usually around the tips of ears.

The European court ruled that the Teacake was not, in fact, a biscuit but a cake and as such Marks and Spencer have begun a legal battle in the UK to retrieve the taxes paid which could amount to as much as 3. 5 million UK pounds sterling ($ 5. 6 million ).

Hence, along with local farm produce of meat and cheese, many regions of the world have their own distinct style of biscuit, so old is this form of food.

In Britain, the digestive biscuit and rich tea have a strong cultural identity as the traditional accompaniment to a cup of tea, and are regularly eaten as such.

Shortbread is traditionally formed into one of three shapes: one large circle, which is divided into segments as soon as it is taken out of the oven ( petticoat tails, which may have been named from the French petits cotés, a pointed biscuit eaten with wine, or petites gastelles, the old French for little cakes ); individual round biscuits ( shortbread rounds ); or a thick ( ¾ " or 2 cm ) oblong slab cut into fingers.

After all biscuits have been sent on one ' end ', only the winning biscuit or group of biscuits ( a " basket ") scores ( according to the points marked on the board ).

The front cover's simple motif of names of featured bands spelled out in what appear to be alphabet pasta letters ( in a combination of blue / biscuit colours alone ) is subverted on the rear cover, where most of the letters have been dispersed and replaced by what seem to be brightly-coloured tablets.

Different cultures have different attitudes to biscuit dunking.

In Arabic countries the author of the Halakhot Gedolot knew some dishes that appear to have been specific Jewish foods, e. g., " paspag ", which was, perhaps, biscuit ; according to the Siddur Amram, the well-known " ḥaroset " is made in those countries from a mixture of herbs, flour, and honey ( Arabic ," ḥalikah ").

Many residents of Lilybank would consider themselves residents of Tollcross, but they, like the biscuit factory, have been officially placed within the Braidfauld Ward of Glasgow City Council.

In Australia, limited-edition variants Picnic Honeycomb ( a Picnic bar with honeycomb pieces ), Picnic Hedgehog ( a picnic bar with biscuit pieces ) and Picnic Rocky Road ( a Picnic bar with mini marshmallows and gumdrops ) have been sold in recent years.

Saltines have been compared to hardtack, a simple unleavened cracker or biscuit made from flour, water, and salt.