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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At the Great Slave, Hudson Bay dogs were purchased, and the fleet sank to the guards with its added burden of dried fish and pemican.
From The Son of the Wolf by Jack London
In consequence of these mutual representations, it was agreed that one half of the pemican should be restored, and the other half remain for the use of the colonists.
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
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
This is not the case however with the Scotch, who have been provident enough to bring with them a supply of dried meat and pemican for a future day.
"So," sais I, "what in natur is pemican?"
From Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
