Definition of "kebbuck" []

• A whole wheel or ball of cheese. (noun)

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• "To eke out the ship-rations provisions must be had, and in this neighbors helped -- the wife of the farmer he worked for presented him with a cheese, she called it a kebbuck, and his father's master insisted on his accepting two stone of meal, part of which was baked into oatcakes."
• "To grace the lad, her weel-hain'd [28] kebbuck, [29] fell, [30]"
• "While the horses were eating their maize, we procured for ourselves some rusk, cheese from the province of Minas exactly like Scotch kebbuck, and port wine from the cask of excellent quality."