bannockburn

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From here to the Arctic are no domestic animals, the taste of beef or mutton or pork or chicken is unknown, bread gives place to bannock (with its consequent indigestion "bannockburn"), and coffee is a beverage discredited.

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  1. A battle in which the Scots under Robert the Bruce defeated the English and assured the independence of Scotland.

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  1. a battle in which the Scots under Robert the Bruce defeated the English and assured the independence of Scotland

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  • From here to the Arctic are no domestic animals, the taste of beef or mutton or pork or chicken is unknown, bread gives place to bannock (with its consequent indigestion "bannockburn"), and coffee is a beverage discredited. —  The New North
 

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