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(pl. noun) - (1) Cakes of shortbread, formerly used as communion-bread.
--Alexander Warrack's Scots Dialect Dictionary, 1911
(2) Singing-loaf or cake, the Eucharistic wafer, because a psalm was directed to be sung while it was making.
--T. Lewis Davies' Supplementary English Glossary, 1881
January 16, 2018