bannock
(noun) a flat bread made of oat or barley flour; common in New England and Scotland
Source: WordNet® 3.1
bannock (usually uncountable, plural bannocks)
(especially, Scotland, northern England) An unleavened bread made with barley, wheat, or oatmeal.
(Canada) 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.
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Bannock (plural Bannocks or Bannock)
A member of a tribe of the Northern Paiute, an indigenous people of the Great Basin.
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Source: Wiktionary
Ban"nock, n. Etym: [Gael. bonnach.]
Definition: 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. Jamieson. Bannock fluke, the turbot. [Scot.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 November 2024
(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
