Pemmican

Pemmican

Meat cured, pulverized, and mixed with fat, containing much nutriment in a small compass.

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pemmican

Culinary arts; Cooking

Pulverized dried meat or fish mixed with hot fat and dried berries and/or other dried fruit into a thick paste, and then formed into loafs or small cakes. Some regional ...

pemmican

Language; Dictionaries

Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun.

pemmican

Places; Arctic

Meat cured, pulverized, and mixed with fat, containing much nutriment in a small compass.

pemmican

Language; Encyclopedias

A food for long voyages, particularly in Arctic expeditions, consisting of lean meat or beef without fat dried, pounded, and pressed into cakes. The use of it is now suppressed.

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Ice of the consistence of thick honey, offering little impediment to a ship while in this state, but greatly favoring the formation of a "bay-floe."

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Places; Arctic

A long and narrow, but generally continuous, collection of loose ice.

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Places; Arctic

A mass of ice projecting under water from an iceberg or floe, and generally distinguishable at a considerable depth of smooth water. It differs from a "calf" in being fixed to, or ...