Rusk
WordNet
noun
(1) Slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp
WiktionaryText
Noun
- a rectangular, hard, dry biscuit
- 1719: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- ...he brought a large basket of rusk or biscuit, and three jars of fresh water, into the boat.
- 1719: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- a twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp (also called a zwieback)
- a childrens weening food
- a cereal binder used in meat product manufacture