bannock
noun
a flat cake made of oatmeal, barley meal, etc., usually baked on a griddle.
Bannocks
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pluralof Bannock.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Bannocks, roaming in the north-eastern part of the State, number, probably, 1,500, and are doubtless a portion of the people of that name ranging in Eastern Oregon and Southern Idaho.
From The Indian Question (1874) by Francis Amasa Walker
He had lived with the Crows and the Bannocks, it was true, but only as a friend and a man of peace, never as a warrior.
From Down the Yellowstone by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
Then the runners of the Willamettes came to us through the snow, 138 saying, ‘Come and join the war-party that goes to fight the Bannocks.’
From The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. by Frederic Homer Balch
“The Bannocks sent back the peace-pipe by this man, and he broke it and cast the pieces in our teeth,” answered one, stubbornly.
From The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. by Frederic Homer Balch
Then the Bannock said that he wanted to see the Cayuse chief, Snoqualmie, in the council-lodge, for the chief of the Bannocks had sent a “talk” to the Cayuses.
From The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. by Frederic Homer Balch
