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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians [syn: pemmican, pemican]

Merriam Webster's

also pemican noun Etymology: Cree pimihka•n Date: 1791 a concentrated food used by North American Indians and consisting of lean meat dried, pounded fine, and mixed with melted fat; also a similar preparation (as of dried beef, flour, molasses, suet) used for emergency rations

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a cake of dried pounded meat mixed with melted fat, orig. made by N. American Indians. 2 beef so treated and flavoured with currants etc. for use by Arctic travellers etc. Etymology: Cree pimecan f. pime fat

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pemmican Pem"mi*can, n. A treatise of much thought in little compass.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.