beaten biscuit

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noun Southern U.S.

a hard, unleavened biscuit, made to rise by pounding and folding the dough.

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Origin of beaten biscuit

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80

The 26 were beaten by the bailiffs as they filed into a caged dock, sobbing, on Dec. 21.
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Last week, property owners were beaten by security guards as they confronted a real-estate developer who defrauded them.
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Without any evidence or provocation, she attacks Swamp Thing—and then gets beaten in the only fight she has in the issue.
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For these infractions of the Holiday spirit, they were arrested and in some cases beaten in the street by Copenhagen police.
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She said that everyone she has talked to who was detained was beaten.
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Last night I saw Jean Baptiste lying prone upon the floor, and knew that she had beaten him down to it, and he had not resisted.
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Four years ago Hetton's horse had been first favourite, but it was ignominiously beaten.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
He frowned, and bent his head, and his long hair fell over his face, while the poor Stuttgardter sat there like a beaten hound.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.
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An old weather-beaten bear-hunter stepped forward, squirting out his tobacco juice with all imaginable deliberation.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various