Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A flat, usually unleavened bread made of oatmeal or barley flour.
- noun Northern US, especially New England Thin cornbread baked on a griddle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thick cake made of oatmeal, barley-meal, or pease-meal, baked on the embers or on an iron plate or griddle over the fire.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England.
- noun [Scot.] the turbot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
unleavened bread made withoatmeal in Scotland, and withcornmeal orwheat flour in Canada,baked in a pan.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a flat bread made of oat or barley flour; common in New England and Scotland
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In present times the name bannock is applied more generally to any baked item of a similar size and shape to the original bannock loaf, and can also be used as a term for a large circular scone which is scored into sections.
Archive 2006-06-01 2006
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In present times the name bannock is applied more generally to any baked item of a similar size and shape to the original bannock loaf, and can also be used as a term for a large circular scone which is scored into sections.
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A most villainous kind of bannock of unleavened mealie-meal and crushed oats, calculated to try the strongest teeth and trouble the toughest digestion, "Gold Pen" might have added.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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"Na, I can ait naething; I'll tak a bannock i 'my pooch.
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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We make coffee and bannock when the rain lets up and save it for later.
M. Sanjayan: Thelon Expedition: The Country M. Sanjayan 2011
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I was also going to make bannock, but we have no flour.
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I just return the other night with a spike buck that is now hanging in my garage it is not the biggest dear I have ever shot but it will join the half a moose in my freezer and on Sunday evening coming home from ice fishing and having some venision stew and bannock I will feel very successful.
How do you measure Success - something "In the Freezer" or "On the Wall"? 2009
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I just return the other night with a spike buck that is now hanging in my garage it is not the biggest dear I have ever shot but it will join the half a moose in my freezer and on Sunday evening coming home from ice fishing and having some venision stew and bannock I will feel very successful.
How do you measure Success - something "In the Freezer" or "On the Wall"? 2009
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We make coffee and bannock when the rain lets up and save it for later.
M. Sanjayan: Thelon Expedition: The Country M. Sanjayan 2011
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To be given all of these things, I mean people come by, and they feed me dry meat, bannock bread.
muskox commented on the word bannock
A hearty griddle-fried bread.
December 19, 2006
muskox commented on the word bannock
1) Not to be confused with a hash made of meat and blueberries.
2) Rarely used as a contracted form of banana hammock.
December 19, 2006