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Webster 1913 Edition


Rusk

Rusk

,
Noun.
[Sp.
rosca de mar
sea rusks, a kind of biscuit,
rosca
properly meaning, a screw, spiral.]
1.
A kind of light, soft bread made with yeast and eggs, often toasted or crisped in an oven; or, a kind of sweetened biscuit.
2.
A kind of light, hard cake or bread, as for stores.
Smart.
3.
Bread or cake which has been made brown and crisp, and afterwards grated, or pulverized in a mortar.

Webster 1828 Edition


Rusk

RUSK

, n.
1.
A kind of light cake.
2.
Hard bread for stores.

Definition 2024


Rusk

Rusk

See also: rusk

English

Proper noun

Rusk

  1. A surname.
  2. A city and county seat in Texas.
  3. One of two towns in Wisconsin.

rusk

rusk

See also: Rusk

English

Noun

rusk (countable and uncountable, plural rusks)

Zwieback
  1. a rectangular, hard, dry biscuit
  2. a twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp (also called a zwieback)
    • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 25, in Crime out of Mind:
      A newly-arrived couple at the next table [] admitted that “this was more like” and that if the Alpenrose could also produce a proper cup of tea it would be just like home. Bill Andreyef, who was eating a lightly-boiled egg and a rusk, regarded the other diners with resentment.
  3. a weaning food for children
  4. a cereal binder used in meat product manufacture

Synonyms

  • Brussels biscuit
  • twice-baked bread
  • zwieback

Translations


Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɹʊsk]

Noun

rusk n (genitive singular rusks, plural rusk)

  1. waste, rubbish, garbage

Declension

n3 Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative rusk ruskið rusk ruskini
Accusative rusk ruskið rusk ruskini
Dative ruski ruskinum ruskum ruskunum
Genitive rusks rusksins ruska ruskanna

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

rusk n (definite singular rusket, indefinite plural rusk, definite plural ruska or ruskene)

  1. waste, rubbish, garbage