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  • noun Alternative spelling of pemmican.

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  • noun lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians

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Examples

  • All knowledge can be put into a kind of pemican, so that we can have it condensed.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • All knowledge can be put into a kind of pemican, so that we can have it condensed.

    As We Were Saying Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • All knowledge can be put into a kind of pemican, so that we can have it condensed.

    Complete Essays Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • And it centered around things like corn, wild rice, buffalo, turkeys, wild game, berries and processed foods such as pemican.

    American Bred 2007

  • -- Then again there is the PUFFER AND CONDENSER, wherein, if matter be wanting in the work, a prefacial waggon is put before the chapteral pony, the former acting the part of pemican, or concentrated essence, the latter representing the liquid necessary for cooking it; the whole forming a _potage au lecteur_, known among professional men as "soldier's broth."

    Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

  • Though the flesh of both of these creatures has a strong and peculiar flavor, it was found to be an agreeable change from pemican and other preserved material.

    Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

  • -- Current bearing us rapidly to westward -- caught a sea cow, and had it converted into pemican.

    Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien

  • One night when I came home from a rabbit hunt, I found my mother and father packing up pemican and jerked meat as though for a journey.

    The Story of a Vision 1901

  • We ate a little of the pemican, helped each other to load, and again we started.

    The Story of a Vision 1901

  • At the Great Slave, Hudson Bay dogs were purchased, and the fleet sank to the guards with its added burden of dried fish and pemican.

    The Son of the Wolf Jack London 1896

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