hard-tack

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hard-tack - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hardtack \Hard"tack`\ or Hard-tack
  \Hard"-tack`\(h[aum]rd"t[a^]k`), n.
     1. 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
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Any of several mahogany trees, esp. the Cercocarpus  betuloides
        . --MW10
        [PJC]