kebbuck
Definitions
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- noun A whole wheel or ball of cheese.
Examples
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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.
The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825
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Then on the Sunday, when he was off duty, we used to take a walk out to the Torry Lighthouse, or down by the auld brig o 'Balgownie, and then hame to an hour's read of the Bible afore I put down the kebbuck and the bannocks.
Note
The word 'kebbuck' comes from a Scots Gaelic word meaning 'cheese'.
