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Definition: Pemmican |
PemmicanNoun1. Lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pemmican" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references) |
Synonym: PemmicanSynonym: pemican (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It was invented by the Native peoples of eastern North America, and widely used in the fur trade as a high-calorie food that could be stored for long periods of time.
To conserve scarce food, in 1814 Governor Miles Macdonell of Assiniboia (or Red River Colony) forbad, in the Pemmican Proclamation, the export of pemmican from his jurisdiction. However, the founder of the colony was the chief shareholder of the Hudson's Bay Company, while pemmican was exported by the Metis to the North West Company, the Hudson's Bay Company's chief competitor. The proclamation led to the destruction, twice, of the chief Red River settlement of Fort Douglas by the North West Company, and to the battle of Seven Oaks.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pemmican."
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | View of an American Indian camp with four large tipis standing at the edge of a wooded area. Frame with pemmican or hides hanging at the right; two figures, facing camera, standing to the left of center.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Pemmican" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pemmican" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pemmican | 56 |
pemmican beef jerky | 10 |
hulk.com pemmican | 5 |
pemmican recipe | 4 |
jerky pemmican | 4 |
bar pemmican | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "pemmican"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mish i copëtuar përzier me dhajmë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | pemmican, tørret kød (dried meat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pemmican, gedroogd vlees (dried meat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kuivattu liha (dried meat, dried meats). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | viande séchée. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Pemmikan, Trockenfleisch (charqui, dried meat), Dörrfleisch (bacon, dried meat, gammon, streak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Pemmikan, κρέασ απεξηραμένο, αποξηραμένο κρέας (dried meat, dried meats). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | carne secca (dried meat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 乾肉 (dried meat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ほしにく (dried meat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emmicanpay pemican, carne seca em bocados pequenos comprimidos em forma numular usados onde não pode chegar carne fresca, carne seca (biltong, dried meat, dried meats, drier, jerkin). (various references) pemican (pemican). (various references) Pemmikan, chacina (dried meat), cecina (dried meat, smoked meat), carne seca (dried meat, dried meats), carne desecada (dried meat). (various references) pemmikan, torkat kött (dried meat, dried meats), koncentrat (concentrate, metallic concentrate, pemican). (various references) kurutulmuş dövülmüş et (pemican). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "pemmican": pemmicans. (additional references) | |
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"Pemmican" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pemican, Penmachno, penmican, Penniman, premmican. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-m-m-n-p" | |
-1 letter: pemican. | |
-2 letters: ammine, anemic, apneic, cinema, encamp, iceman, immane. | |
-3 letters: amice, amine, amnic, anime, campi, mamie, manic, minae, mince, panic, pecan. | |
-4 letters: acme, acne, amen, amie, amin, cain, came, camp, cane, cape, cine, emic, epic, imam, mace, maim, main, mane, mean, mica, mice, mien, mime, mina, mine, name, nape, neap, nema, nice, nipa, pace. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-m-m-n-p" | |
+1 letter: pemmicans. | |
+3 letters: impeachment. | |
+4 letters: impeachments, impermanence, impermanency, misplacement. | |
+5 letters: accompaniment, commandership, complimentary, impermanences, misplacements. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 6D 6D 69 63 61 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . -- -- .. -.-. .- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01101101 01101101 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e m m i c a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 006D 006D 0069 0063 0061 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5071797975696780 |
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