About The Word Pemmican
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Pemmican
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What's The Definition Of Pemmican?
[n] lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians
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A treatise of much thought in little compass.
\Pem"mi*can\, n. [Written also pemican.] 1. Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun. Then on pemican they feasted. --Longfellow. 2. Meat, without the fat, cut in thin slices, dried in the sun, pounded, then mixed with melted fat and sometimes dried fruit, and compressed into cakes or in bags. It contains much nutriment in small compass, and is of great use in long voyages of exploration. |
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