Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hardtack

Hardtack (hard"tak`) , noun

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
2.
Any of several mahogany trees, esp. the Cercocarpus betuloides. — MW10

Also: Hard-tack