cracknel
Americannoun
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a hard, brittle cake or biscuit.
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cracknels, small bits of fat pork fried crisp.
noun
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a type of hard plain biscuit
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(often plural) crisply fried bits of fat pork
Etymology
Origin of cracknel
1350–1400; Middle English crak ( e ) nele < Middle French *craquenelle, metathetic alteration of craquelin < Middle Dutch crākelinc, equivalent to crāke ( n ) to crack + -linc -ling 1
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Dymov hurriedly drank a glass of tea, took a cracknel, and, smiling gently, went to the station.
From The Wife, and other stories by Constance Garnett
"Yes, it's 'licious," agreed Joan, with her mouth full of cracknel biscuit.
From Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls by Frances Browne Arthur
It elsewhere appears to be a sort of cake, or cracknel.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
This is done to rid it of any bits of cracknel, etc., that may remain in the lard.
From Home Pork Making by A. W. Fulton
The messenger returned to the city with the message and the cracknel, and Bill waited all through the day and night, but no word came from the city.
From Bill the Minder by W. Heath (William Heath) Robinson
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