pemmican
noun
dried meat pounded into a powder and mixed with hot fat and dried fruits or berries, pressed into a loaf or into small cakes, originally prepared by North American Indians.
pemican
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a variation of
pemmican.
Example Sentences
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Though the flesh of both of these creatures has a strong and peculiar flavor, it was found to be an agreeable change from pemican and other preserved material.
From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Jewett Castello Gilson
On the 25th, having only a little pemican left, which we wished to keep, we sent forward a hunter in the little elk-skin canoe, to kill some game.
From Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific by Gabriel Franchere
The pemican is buffalo meat, dried hard, and pounded in a wooden mortar.
From History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians by Thomas O. (Thomas Osmond) Summers
Many women came and made them presents of food, dried meat, pemican, and berries.
From Blackfeet Indian Stories by George Bird Grinnell
They gave us four sacs of pemican, and we set off again, on the 23d, at eight A.M.
From Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific by Gabriel Franchere
