zwieback

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Cultivate the habit of eating zwieback, hard crackers or other hard food substances that require real vigorous chewing.

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  1. noun A usually sweetened bread baked first as a loaf and later cut into slices and toasted.

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  • Meanwhile the little shop on East Fourth Street had been abandoned for a bigger shop, and this, in turn, for one still bigger--quite a palace of a shop, with plate-glass windows--on Avenue B. It was here, beginning in a modest way with a couple of tables whereat chance-hungry people might sit while they ate zwieback or a thick slice of hearty pumpernickel and drank a glass of milk, that a restaurant was established as a tender to the bakery. —  A Romance Of Tompkins Square 1891
  • Solid food, such as zwieback and milk or cereal, is begun at seven months, and by thirteen or fourteen months the child will be eating cereal, bread, broth, beef juice, potato, rice, vegetables, etc. Candy is harmful for children, and even older children should eat candy only after meals. —  Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts
  • Cultivate the habit of eating zwieback, hard crackers or other hard food substances that require real vigorous chewing. —  Vitality Supreme
  • Do not give anything to baby between its regular meals but water; crackers, zwieback, and bread are prohibited between DIET OF OLDER CHILDREN-FOURTH TO TENTH YEAR Give the largest meal at midday and a light supper at night, very much like that recommended for the third year. —  Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada
  • Diet_: Older children should receive chopped meat, eggs, zwieback or whole grain bread. —  Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
 

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  1. German : zwie-, twice (from Middle High German zwi-, from Old High German; see dwo- in Indo-European roots) + backen, to bake (from Middle High German, from Old High German bahhan, backan).

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  1. German, from zwie-, English twi-, two-, twice, + backen, English bake. The word is equivalent in meaning to biscuit.
 

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