Hypertext Webster Gateway: "rusk"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rusk \Rusk\, n. [Sp. rosca de mar sea rusks, a kind of biscuit,
rosca properly meaning, a screw, spiral.]
1. A kind of light, soft bread made with yeast and eggs,
often toasted or crisped in an oven; or, a kind of
sweetened biscuit.
2. A kind of light, hard cake or bread, as for stores.
--Smart.
3. Bread or cake which has been made brown and crisp, and
afterwards grated, or pulverized in a mortar.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
rusk
n : slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown
and hard and crisp [syn: {zwieback}, {Brussels biscuit},
{twice-baked bread}]
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