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A kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel.

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  1. n. A kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel.
  2. n. A kind of rich plum cake, eaten especially on Mid-Lent Sunday.
  3. n. a crisp bread of fine white flour
  4. n. a fruitcake (sometimes covered with almond paste) eaten at mid-Lent or Easter or Christmas
  5. 1. A kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel. [Obs.] Not common bread, but vastel bread, or simnels. Fuller. 2. A kind of rich plum cake, eaten especially on Mid-Lent Sunday. [Eng.] Herrick.
  6. n a crisp bread of fine white flour n a fruitcake (sometimes covered with almond paste) eaten at mid-Lent or Easter or Christmas