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Word entry · 7 letters

bannock

Best crossword clue

"Oat flatbread"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈbæ.nək/Part of speech nounSorted abcknnoStarts with BEnds with K1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A flat bread traditionally made from oat or barley flour.

Word origin

From Middle English bannoke, from Old English bannuc, perhaps from a Goidelic word (compare Irish bonnóg, Manx bonnag, Scottish Gaelic bonnach), possibly from Latin pānicum (“millet”). Doublet of bonnag.

Used in a sentence

  • So she baked two oatmeal bannocks, and set them on to the fire to harden. After a while, the old man came in, and sat down beside the fire, and takes one of the bannocks, and snaps it through the middle.
  • “The boats are coming!” The cry rang through the village. Women left their bannock-baking, their basketweaving and hurried to the shore.
  • My father’s bannock was nothing but lard, flour, salt, and baking powder patted into big rounds and cooked on sticks over a campfire.

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