Definitions of pemmican in English
noun
(1) Lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians
Examples of pemmican in English
(1) It was also made into pemmican , a mixture of ground buffalo meat, service berries, and marrow grease.
(2) Native Americans once used the fruit to make pemmican , a type of meat jerky.
(3) Having partaken heartily of frozen pemmican , I stuffed my pocket, bundled the rest into a bag on the sledge, and started off in high glee, stimulated in body and mind.
(4) These slabs may have been used in the manufacture of pemmican , for pounding dried meat into a powder or for breaking bison bones.
(5) They were mostly French Canadians, they drank lake water mixed with wine and ate nothing but buffalo pemmican , and they sang the land alive.
synonyms of pemmican
pemican
