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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (southern)

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1745 a small cake made of cornmeal

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hoecake Hoe"cake`, n. A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe. [Southern U.S.]