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Webster 1913 Edition


Bannock

Ban′nock

,
Noun.
[Gael.
bonnach
.]
A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; – used in Scotland and the northern counties of England.
Jamieson.
Bannock fluke
,
the turbot.
[Scot.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Bannock

BAN'NOCK

,
Noun.
A cake made of oatmeal or peas-meal, baked on an iron plate over the fire; used in Scotland, and the northern counties of England.

Definition 2024


Bannock

Bannock

See also: bannock

English

Noun

Bannock (countable and uncountable, plural Bannocks)

  1. (collectively) A tribe of the Northern Paiute, an indigenous people of the Great Basin.
  2. A member of this tribe.

bannock

bannock

See also: Bannock

English

Noun

bannock (usually uncountable, plural bannocks)

  1. An unleavened bread made with oatmeal in Scotland, and with cornmeal or wheat flour in Canada, baked in a pan.
    • 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 8,
      "The boats are coming!" The cry rang through the village. Women left their bannock-baking, their basketweaving and hurried to the shore.
    • 2007, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Turtle Valley, Vintage Canada, ISBN 9780676978865, p. 54,
      My father's bannock was nothing but lard, flour, salt, and baking powder patted into big rounds and cooked on sticks over a campfire.

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