bannock
noun
a flat cake made of oatmeal, barley meal, etc., usually baked on a griddle.
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bannock
1 American
[ban-uhk]
/ ˈbæn ək /
noun
Scottish and British Cooking.
Bannock
2
American
[ban-uhk]
/ ˈbæn ək /
noun
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Bannocks,
plural
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Bannock
plural
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a member of a North American Indian people formerly of Idaho and Wyoming who merged with the Shoshone in the 19th century, now living primarily in southeastern Idaho.
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the language of the Bannock, belonging to the Shoshonean group of Uto-Aztecan languages.
bannock
British
/ ˈbænək /
noun
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Etymology
Origin of bannock
before 1000; Middle English bannok, Old English bannuc morsel < British Celtic; compare Scots Gaelic bannach
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Your selections include smoked salmon panini, venison chili, xuxem berry tea, dessert bars and bannock doughnuts.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2022
We will keep going back for the bannock tacos and the chance to eat in the Isken Hall, with windows all around overlooking the Lost Lake woods.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2022
My characters take it for granted that their roads are made of biodegradable foam, 3-D printers spit out biological tissue, trucks drive themselves, and there’s a popular chain of bannock cafés in northern Canada.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2017
She makes bannock, a traditional round-shaped fry bread that’s eaten plain or with spreadable treats such as dips, hummus, jellies or jam.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 28, 2015
She gave Omakayas a crust of bannock bread, a treat, and sent her ahead, although she stayed within sight should Omakayas need her.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
Nammi’I Naokwaide, located in traditional lands of the Shoshone and Bannock tribes in southern Idaho, means “Young Sister Creek.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
They found signs of Shoshone, Bannock, Crow and other Indigenous camps in every part of the basin.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2022
He will not have to serve any more jail time after spending a year at the Bannock County Jail prior to his release in December.
From Fox News ● Jan. 5, 2022
The U.S. military created the nation’s first national park, Yellowstone, by forcibly removing Nez Perce, Bannock, Shoshone, Crow, and Blackfeet communities from their ancestral lands.
From Slate ● May 11, 2021
Joey started the car and we drove into Bannock.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
In the North, having their principal village at the foot of the Wind River Mountains, in the southeastern corner of Oregon, is the tribe of Mountain Snakes or Shoshonees, and the kindred tribe of Bannocks.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 by Various
Some of the warriors recognize him as one of the bravest of the Bannocks.
From The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. by Balch, Frederic Homer
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 Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)
From here the Bannocks guided them onward, by train and by wagon, until at last they reached the country of the Fish-eaters, or Pai-Utes, at Pyramid Lake in western Nevada!
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)
Bannocks are better nor nae kind o' bread.
From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Ramsay, Edward Bannerman
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