Definition of "cracknel" [crack•nel]

• A hard crisp biscuit. (noun)
• Crisp bits of fried pork fat; cracklings. (noun)

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• "Dymov hurriedly drank a glass of tea, took a cracknel, and, smiling gently, went to the station."
• "My favorite example of this sort of thing is in Harkavy's Yiddish-English-Hebrew dictionary, which for Yiddish beygl meaning "bagel" gives . . . "cracknel.""
• "Andreevich, munching a cracknel after emptying his glass."