Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hardtack"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hard-tack \Hard"-tack`\, n.
A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard
biscuit or sea bread.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hardtack
n 1: very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple
[syn: {pilot biscuit}, {pilot bread}, {sea biscuit}, {ship
biscuit}]
2: a mountain mahogany
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