Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hoecake"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hoecake \Hoe"cake`\, n.
A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire
or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe.
[Southern U.S.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hoecake
n : thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal;
originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire
(Southern)
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