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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.
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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
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See also: Rusk
English
Noun
rusk (countable and uncountable, plural rusks)
Zwieback
- a rectangular, hard, dry biscuit
- 1719: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- ...he brought a large basket of rusk or biscuit, and three jars of fresh water, into the boat.
- 1719: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- 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.
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- a weaning food for children
- a cereal binder used in meat product manufacture
Synonyms
- Brussels biscuit
- twice-baked bread
- zwieback
Translations
light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɹʊsk]
Noun
rusk n (genitive singular rusks, plural rusk)
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 |