bannock
(ˈbænək)
Forms: 1 bannuc, 5 -ok, 7 -ack, 6– -ock, (9 Sc. banno', banna, dim. bannockie).
[a. Gael. bannach, ? ad. L. pānicium f. pānis bread.]
1. The name, in Scotland and north of England, of a form in which home-made bread is made; usually unleavened, of large size, round or oval form, and flattish, without being as thin as ‘scon’ or oat-cake. In Scotland, bannocks are usually of barley- or pease-meal, but may be of wheaten flour; in some parts a large fruit cake or bun of the same shape is called a currant-bannock. In north of England the name is sometimes given to oat- or haver-bread, when made thicker and softer than an oat-cake; but local usage varies. (Cf. the dialect glossaries).
| a 1000 Gloss in Haupt's Zeitschr. IX. 463 Bucellam semiplenam, healfne bannuc. 1483 Cath. Angl. 20 Bannok, focacius, panis subcinericius. 1562 Turner Herbal ii. 33 a, Somthyng rysyng in bignes toward the middes, as a litle cake or bannock..which is hastely baked upon y⊇ harth. 1630 J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. i. 78/2 Or Oaten cakes or Bannacks, as in North Britaine. 1663 in Spalding Troub. Chas. I (1829) 114 Baked good bannocks at the fire. 1674 Ray N. Countr. Wds. 5 Tharcakes, the same with Bannocks, viz. Cakes made of Oat-meal..without Yeast or Leaven. 1724 A. Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) II. 167 She gi'es us white bannocks. 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. viii, To procure butter-milk and pease-bannocks. 1860 All Y. Round No. 45. 440 Barley bannocks and oat cake long remained the staff of life in villages in Scotland. [1870 R. Chambers Pop. Rhymes Scotl. 86 ‘Welcome, welcome, wee bannockie!’ Ibid. 87 And that was the end o' the banna.] |
† 2. ‘A small quantity of meal [sufficient to make a bannock] due to the servants of a mill by those grinding their corns or thirled thereto, ordinarily termed in charters of mills the sequels.’ Spottiswoode's MS. Law Dict. in Jamieson. Obs.
| 1773 Erskine Inst. Sc. Law ii. ix. §19 (Jam.) The sequels..pass by the name of knaveship..bannock, and lock. |
3. Comb. (all Sc.), as bannock-fed, bannock-shaped; bannock-fluke (also bannet-), the turbot; bannock-stick, a wooden roller for rolling out bannocks; bannock-stone = bakestone.
| 1844 in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. xii. 102 The folk are bannock-fed. 1816 Scott Antiq. xi, Caller haddocks and whitings—a bannock-fluke and a cock-paddle. 1724 A. Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) II. 181 Bakbread and a bannock-stane. a 1800 Hogg Jacobite Relics (1819) I. 118 (Jam.) A bassie and a bannock-stick. |