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Cake

A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.

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Baba 76% connected

A kind of plum cake.

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Biscuit 76% connected

A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.

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Bridecake 76% connected

Rich or highly ornamented cake, to be distributed to the guests at a wedding, or sent to friends after the wedding.

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Cookie 76% connected

See Cooky.

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Cooky 76% connected

A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds.

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Crumpet 76% connected

A kind of large, thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider.

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Flapjack 76% connected

A fklat cake turned on the griddle while cooking; a griddlecake or pacake.

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Gingerbread 76% connected

A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes.

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Griddlecake 76% connected

A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour.

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Jumble 76% connected

To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up.

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Pancake 76% connected

A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack.

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Seedcake 76% connected

A sweet cake or cooky containing aromatic seeds, as caraway.

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Tablet 76% connected

A small table or flat surface.

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Waffle 76% connected

A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.

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Broader term 3

Block 76% connected

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…

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Cover 76% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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Dish 76% connected

A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.

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Coat 74% connected

An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men.

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Coat 74% connected

An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men.

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Synonym 3

Bar 92% connected

A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especi…

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Coat 92% connected

An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men.

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Patty 92% connected

A little pie.

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