Definitions for pemmicans

pemmicans pem·mi·can

Spelling: [pem-i-kuh n]
IPA: /ˈpɛm ɪ kən/

Pemmicans is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 478 anagrams from letters in pemmicans (aceimmnps).

Definitions for pemmicans

noun

  1. dried meat pounded into a powder and mixed with hot fat and dried fruits or berries, pressed into a loaf or into small cakes, originally prepared by North American Indians.

Origin of pemmicans

1735-45; Cree pimihka·n, derivative of pimihke·w he makes pemmican (mixing together the grease and other ingredients), he makes grease *pemihke·wa, equivalent to *pemy- grease + *-ehke· make

Examples for pemmicans

Some remains of food were drawn out, and a case a quarter full of pemmican.

pemmican was in plenty, and the redmen kept the hunting-grounds in peace.

Thankful indeed all Consolidated pemmican stores safely loaded.

We will dry, and smoke some of it, or turn it into pemmican.

On the pemmican which they made from these buffaloes they depended for their winter's food.

They picked up all the pemmican and biscuit that was still eatable.

This, with some pemmican and flat cakes, made us a capital dinner.

I bent down the tree, and found the large piece of pemmican.

pemmican was also made by drying the meat and pulverizing it.

All the research laboratories of Consolidated pemmican are going night and day.

Word Value for pemmicans
Scrable

16

Words with friends

21

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