pemmican : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pemmican	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for pemmican
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pemmican n lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians Synonym(s): pemmican, pemican
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pemmican \Pem"mi*can\, n. A treatise of much thought in little compass.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pemmican \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.