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pemmican
pemmican is a 8-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 21 · 3 senses
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- 1noun
Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun.
- 2noun
Meat, without the fat, cut in thin slices, dried in the sun, pounded, then mixed with melted fat and sometimes dried fruit, and compressed into cakes or in bags. It contains much nutriment in small compass, and is of great use in long voyages of exploration.
- 3noun
lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians
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