The word 'hardtack' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a type of hard, dry, and usually bland biscuit or cracker that has been used as an inexpensive food staple for centuries. You can use it in reference to food and military rations. Example sentence: "The sailors survived on hardtack during their voyage."
A braggart, a bigot, sometimes even a hardtack cracker, he is as incompetent in business as he is ruthless.
If it was too wet to light a fire, they had to subsist on hardtack biscuits and cold sowbelly doused in vinegar.
McFarrar was hungry and wanted that hardtack badly but couldn't stop to pick it up He made up his mind to come back for it later in the evening when the firing ceased.
Cluney McFarrar tells about an experience he had in a wood in France in 1918, when he had to run past a can of hardtack, a dead soldier had dropped.
Syria's conflict is about a lot of different things, of course, but in the business of killing, which is the hardtack, everyday stuff of war, it, too, is Shiite versus Sunni.
From there it's just a short step to federal junk with no historic value at all — misprinted tax forms, past-date hardtack, obsolete nuclear missiles.
Real hunger now appeared: Buell's men complained that they were reduced to half-rations, then quarter-rations, and when the hardtack they brought with them finally ran out, received only wormy flour without the necessary utensils to make bread.
A blend of science fiction and hardtack realism, part Philip K. Dick, part Walker Evans (the piece Buddy is rehearsing is titled "Let Us Now Praise Famous Androids"), the passage offers readers a bite-size sample of Graham-Muñoz's literary fusion cuisine.
The wine is stolen, and in place of the traditional matzo is a small square of hardtack, the dense breadstuff given out in soldiers' rations.
The iconic SoHo restaurant FOOD, run by Carol Goodden and the artist Gordon Matta-Clark in the 1970s, was recreated at the Frieze Art Fair on Randalls Island on Thursday, offering a $15 prix fixe meal for survival: beef jerky, hardtack, dried fruits and cheese on a divided paper plate, along with a pickle; a cup of Jjigae, or Korean stew, and a cup of Tang.
Chased out of Nauvoo, Ill., by vigilantes and fired with a vision of a divine kingdom on earth, Brigham Young and 147 members of his Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints endured a 1,300-mile, canvas-topped, hardtack-fueled, cholera-racked teSaintsfaith to rendurede Wasatch Front in 1,300-mile 1,300-mile
