Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Parched maize pounded into meal, formerly much used by the Indians of North America, especially when on the march.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Indian corn parched, and beaten to powder, -- used for food by the Northern American Indians.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Indian corn parched and pounded into meal (powder), used for food by the Native Americans.

Etymologies

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A respelling, probably influenced by "cake", of "nokehike", which derives from an Algonquian language, probably Narragansett nokehick; compare Abenaki nokhigan ("flour"). Related to rokeag and yokeag.

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