Definition of "bannock" [ban•nock]

• A flat, usually unleavened bread made of oatmeal or barley flour. (noun)
• Northern U.S., especially New England Thin cornbread baked on a griddle. (noun)

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• "In present times the name bannock is applied more generally to any baked item of a similar size and shape to the original bannock loaf, and can also be used as a term for a large circular scone which is scored into sections."
• "A most villainous kind of bannock of unleavened mealie-meal and crushed oats, calculated to try the strongest teeth and trouble the toughest digestion, "Gold Pen" might have added."
• ""Na, I can ait naething; I'll tak a bannock i 'my pooch."