PEMMICAN

pemmican, pemican

(noun) lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

pemmican (usually uncountable, plural pemmicans)

A food made from meat which has been dried and beaten into a paste, mixed with berries and rendered fat, and shaped into little patties. [from 18th c.]

(now, rare) A speech or piece of writing that is very condensed, conveying a lot of thought or information in few words. [from 19th c.]

Source: Wiktionary

Pem"mi*can, n. Etym: [Written also pemican.]

1. Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun. Then on pemican they feasted. Longfellow.

2. Meat, without the fat, cut in thin slices, dried in the sun, pounded, then mixed with melted fat and sometimes dried fruit, and compressed into cakes or in bags. It contains much nutriment in small compass, and is of great use in long voyages of exploration.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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