Pemmican is valid Scrabble Word

Is pemmican a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
21 points in WWF

Definitions for PEMMICAN in dictionary:

NOUN:

a food prepared by North American Indians, also PEMICAN
a pressed cake of pounded dried meat mixed to a paste with melted fat and other ingredients, originally made by North American Indians and later adapted by Arctic explorers.
Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun.
Meat, without the fat, cut in thin slices, dried in the sun, pounded, then mixed with melted fat and sometimes dried fruit, and compressed into cakes or in bags. It contains much nutriment in small compass, and is of great use in long voyages of exploration.
lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians
pressed cake of meat with fat and berries or dried fruits

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a food prepared by Native Americans
small pressed cake of shredded dried meat, pounded into paste with fat and berries or dried fruits

Words related to PEMMICAN

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Words that contain PEMMICAN

How to use PEMMICAN in a sentence

Not far away other women were making pemmican of fried buffalo meat and fat, pounded together and packed with hot grease in skin bags.
They killed thousands upon thousands of them, for it took several animals to make a sack of pemmican weighing one hundred fifty pounds.
She was carrying a package of sacks to the place where the pemmican was being made.
A little salt, pemmican, and flour would be all the supplies he needed to take with them.
Their own provisions consisted of pemmican, dried caribou meat, flour, salt, tea, and tobacco.
Among the most portable kinds of solid food are pemmican, jerked meat, wheat flour, barley, peas, cheese, and biscuit.
We had three pemmican meals left and decided to make them into four.
She also filled a small sack with pemmican, dried meat, and berries, and put it near the dog.
Many women came and made them presents of dried meat, pemmican, and berries.
When the time came for making the pemmican, two large fires were built of dry quaking aspen wood, and these were allowed to burn down to red coals.

Meantime, the tallow of the buffalo had been melted in a large kettle, and the pemmican bags prepared.
A much finer grade of pemmican was made from the choicest parts of the buffalo with marrow fat.
Pemmican was eaten either dry as it came from the sack, or stewed with water.
Then he laid it to one side, first opening the bill and putting a little piece of pemmican in its mouth.
In the mouth of each one is put a piece of pemmican, so that they may not be afraid of the people.
The older men carry their arms, while the boys bear the moccasins, the ropes, and the food, which usually consists of dried meat or pemmican.
He breathed deeply, ate a breakfast of pemmican as he walked, and proceeded to make up lost time.
Our remaining provisions consist of four-fifteenths of a pound of pemmican per man, and the rest of the dog meat.
He built no fire that evening, but shared a slab of pemmican with Brave, and they huddled together under the bearskin robe.
They rested for a long time, and Raud got a slab of pemmican from the pack and divided it with Brave.
Finally, he got up and ate some of his pemmican, gathered his gear and broke camp.
We spent the rest of the day in making pemmican, and in doing up our packages in a more compact form.
They killed as many of the buffalo as they wished and after the fashion of the more northerly Indians reduced the meat to pemmican.
When mixed with fat, it forms the pemmican used by explorers in Arctic voyages.
Deer and buffalo were numerous in the region, and, during the day, thirteen sacks of pemmican were made for the party from materials stored at the fort.
If his pemmican were not properly compounded I damned his achievement, and it was heard no more of.
In compliance with my instructions, a case of pemmican was buried at this place.
Hastily filling his pockets with bread, and taking the two cans of pemmican, Colwell told the coxswain to take Long into the cutter, and started after the others with Ash.
After lingering for two days, the Indians stole a bag of chopped buffalo meat, or pemmican, and an old gun.
They also brought back pemmican, which is made by chopping buffalo meat very fine, and mixing it with the tallow from the animal.
When it got cold, the pemmican sack was almost as hard as a stone.

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