What does rusk mean?
Definitions for rusk
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Princeton's WordNet
zwieback, rusk, Brussels biscuit, twice-baked breadnoun
slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp
Wiktionary
rusknoun
a rectangular, hard, dry biscuit
rusknoun
a twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp (also called a zwieback)
rusknoun
a weening food for children
rusknoun
a cereal binder used in meat product manufacture
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Rusknoun
Hard bread for stores.
The lady sent me divers presents of fruits, sugar, and rusk. Walter Raleigh.
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rusk
A rusk is a type of hard, dry biscuit or a slice of twice-baked bread. It is often used for teething infants or as a snack when dunked in coffee or tea. Originating from Europe, rusks are popular in various cultures around the world and made in different ways according to regional recipes.
Webster Dictionary
Rusknoun
a kind of light, soft bread made with yeast and eggs, often toasted or crisped in an oven; or, a kind of sweetened biscuit
Rusknoun
a kind of light, hard cake or bread, as for stores
Rusknoun
bread or cake which has been made brown and crisp, and afterwards grated, or pulverized in a mortar
Etymology: [Sp. rosca de mar sea rusks, a kind of biscuit, rosca properly meaning, a screw, spiral.]
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Rusk
A rusk is a hard, dry biscuit or a twice-baked bread. It is sometimes used as a baby teething food. In the United Kingdom, the name also refers to a wheat-based food additive.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Rusk
rusk, n. a kind of light hard cake: a kind of light soft cake or sweetened biscuit. [Sp. rosca, a roll; cf. Rosca de mar, a sea-rusk; origin unknown.]
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
RUSK
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Rusk is ranked #7117 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Rusk surname appeared 4,701 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Rusk.
88.8% or 4,178 total occurrences were White.
6.1% or 288 total occurrences were Black.
2.3% or 109 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.1% or 52 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.8% or 42 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
0.6% or 32 total occurrences were Asian.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of rusk in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of rusk in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of rusk in a Sentence
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