biscuit
Fetched 2026-10-26 (cache).
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Noun
- {{lb|en|UK|India|Australia|Ireland|New Zealand|sometimes|Canada|uncommon|_|in|_|the|_|US|_|and|_|the|_|Philippines}} A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a [[cookie]].
- {{lb|en|chiefly|North America|rare in Scotland and Guernsey}} A small, usually [[soft]] and [[flaky]] [[bread]], generally made with [[baking soda]], which is similar in texture to a [[scone]] but which is usually not sweet.
- {{lb|en|UK|Ireland|Philippines|Singapore|Malaysia}} A [[cracker]].
- {{senseid|en|durable, hard, dry bread or breadlike foodstuff}} {{lb|en|especially|nautical}} Any of several hard [[bread]] or [[breadlike]] [[foodstuff]]s, especially those formerly supplied to [[naval]] [[ship]]s and [[army|armies]], made with very little [[water]], [[kneaded]] into [[flat]] [[cake]]s{{,}} and slowly baked, and which often became [[infested]] with [[weevil]]s.
- A form of [[unglazed]] [[earthenware]].
- A light brown colour.
- {{lb|en|woodworking}} A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to provide gluing surface and strength in [[shear]].
- {{lb|en|US|slang}} A [[plastic]] [[card]] bearing the [[code]]s for [[authorize|authorizing]] a [[nuclear]] [[attack]].
- {{lb|en|US|slang|[[hiphop]]|music}} A [[handgun]], especially a [[revolver]].
- {{lb|en|ice hockey|shuffleboard}} A [[puck]] ([[hockey puck]]).
- {{lb|en|slang}} The [[head]].
- {{lb|en|NZ}} An [[inner tube]] used in the sport of [[tubing]], or biscuiting.
Verb
- {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[fire]] ([[pottery]]) in a [[kiln]], without a [[ceramic]] [[glaze]].
- {{lb|en|NZ|intransitive}} To take part in the sport of [[tubing]], riding down a river on an [[inner tube]].
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