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yokeag

yokeag

English

Noun

yokeag (uncountable)

  1. (US) Dried, pulverized corn kernels, sometimes mixed with maple sugar.
    • 2006, Patricia Klindienst, The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans:
      She lingers over the Aquinnahs' continued love of yokeag, the food made from white flint corn that has been parched and pounded—the fine cornmeal the Narragansetts shared with Roger Williams, the same food that Thomas Stanton must have eaten on his long walk to Boston three centuries earlier.

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