biscuit

Meanings

Plural: biscuits

Noun

• small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda
• any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)
• A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
• 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.
• A cracker.
• Any of several hard bread or breadlike foodstuffs, especially those formerly supplied to naval ships and armies, made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.
• A form of unglazed earthenware.
• A light brown colour.
• 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.
• A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
• A handgun, especially a revolver.
• A puck (hockey puck).
• The head.
• An inner tube used in the sport of tubing, or biscuiting.

Verb

• To fire (pottery) in a kiln, without a ceramic glaze.
• To take part in the sport of tubing, riding down a river on an inner tube.

Synonyms

biscuitry, biscuitware, cookie, cooky, dowel, finger joint, glue strip, spline

Related Words

cookie, cracknel, hardtack, macaroon, pilot bread, soda cracker, tang