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What does pemmican mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word pemmican? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A food made from meat which has been dried and beaten into a paste, mixed with berries and rendered fat, and shaped into little patties. [from 18th c.]
  2. (now rare) A speech or piece of writing that is very condensed, conveying a lot of thought or information in few words. [from 19th c.]
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These slabs may have been used in the manufacture of pemmican, for pounding dried meat into a powder or for breaking bison bones.
His West, under the Big Sky, is all skittering lizards, Indians on horseback, and mountain men eating pemmican.
The field ration was almost entirely pemmican, two pounds per day, with a few biscuit and the indispensable tea.
They were mostly French Canadians, they drank lake water mixed with wine and ate nothing but buffalo pemmican, and they sang the land alive.
It in involved dried meats, sausage, pemmican and skill development in meat cutting and preparation.
The Métis tried to get the pemmican back but the governor of the Hudson's Bay Company stopped them.

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