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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A flat brittle cookie spiced with ginger and sweetened with molasses.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A thin brittle cake spiced with ginger.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A crisp cookie flavored with ginger.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A type of biscuit (American: cookie) made from dough seasoned with ginger.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger
  • noun a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger

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