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noun
An unleavened bread, usually made with barleymeal, wheatmeal, or oatmeal; sometimes of peasemeal or otherwise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, especially, uncountable, usually
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noun
A biscuit bread made of wheat flour or cornmeal, fat, and sometimes baking powder, typically baked over a fire, wrapped around a stick or in a pan.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, uncountable, usually
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noun
A biscuit bread made of wheat flour or cornmeal, fat, and sometimes baking powder, typically baked over a fire, wrapped around a stick or in a pan.
This or any similar traditional bread when made by indigenous Americans, originally from native sources such as maize or pseudocereals and plants with starchy roots
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, specifically, uncountable, usually
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Synonyms: Indian bread, alatiq, skaan
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noun
A member of a tribe of the Northern Paiute, an indigenous people of the Great Basin.
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noun
a flat bread made of oat or barley flour; common in New England and Scotland
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: flatbread
History
Etymology tree Latin pānicumder. Old Irish bannachder. Old English bannuc Middle English bannoke English bannock From Middle English bannoke, from Old English bannuc, perhaps from a Goidelic word (compare Irish bonnóg, Manx bonnag, Scottish Gaelic bonnach), possibly from Latin pānicum (“millet”). Doublet of bonnag.
Derived from Northern Paiute Pannakwatɨ (“Bannock”).
Across languages
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