Canadian French Meaning of pemmican

pemmican

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Definitions and Meaning of pemmican in English

Wordnet

pemmican (n)

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

Webster

pemmican (n.)

Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun.

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.

A treatise of much thought in little compass.

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pemmican

lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American IndiansAmong the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, dive

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pemican => pemmican, pembroke welsh corgi => Pembroke Welsh Corgi, pembroke table => Table Pembroke, pembroke => Pembroke, pelycosauria => Pelycosaures,