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
26 June 2024
(verb) include or contain; have as a component; “A totally new idea is comprised in this paper”; “The record contains many old songs from the 1930’s”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
