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ban•nock

Pronunciation: (ban'uk), [key]
—n. Scot. and Brit. Cookery.
a flat cake made of oatmeal, barley meal, etc., usually baked on a griddle.

Ban•nock

Pronunciation: (ban'uk), [key]
—n.,
—pl. -nocks, (esp. collectively) -nock for 1.
1. a member of a North American Indian people formerly of Idaho and Wyoming who merged with the Shoshone in the 19th century, now living primarily in southeastern Idaho.
2. the language of the Bannock, belonging to the Shoshonean group of Uto-Aztecan languages.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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