: a concentrated food used by North American Indians and consisting of lean meat dried, pounded fine, and mixed with melted fat
also: a similar preparation (as of dried beef, flour, molasses, suet) used for emergency rations
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebAncient Incas utilized meat dehydration as far back as the 1500s, and indigenous North Americans shared a version of jerky, called pemmican, with the first European settlers. The Editors, Field & Stream, 15 Apr. 2020 At TMIP, Baltzley, a white guy with dreadlocks, offered testing menus inspired by his explorations of Native American cooking — pemmican, bison, berries. Devra First, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2018 There was food, too, including a hunk of unappetizing pemmican. John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 May 2018 People used to rely on food that could last, like pemmican and hardtack, Spam and Twinkies. Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2017