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Webster 1913 Edition
Pemmican
Pem′mi-can
,Noun.
[Written also
pemican
.] 1.
Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun.
Then on
pemican
they feasted. Longfellow.
2.
Meat, without the fat, cut in thin slices, dried in the sun, pounded, then mixed with melted fat and sometimes dried fruit, and compressed into cakes or in bags. It contains much nutriment in small compass, and is of great use in long voyages of exploration.
Definition 2024
pemmican
pemmican
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Noun
pemmican (usually uncountable, plural pemmicans)
- A food made from meat which has been dried and beaten into a paste, mixed with berries and rendered fat, and shaped into little patties.
- An emergency ration of meat and fruit.
- (dated) A treatise of much thought in little compass.
Translations
food mixture
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