tractum — meaning in English

English meaning

• biscuit noun A small, flat baked snack, either crisp (British sense, like a cookie) or soft and flaky (American sense, like a scone).
• cracker noun A thin, crisp, usually savory baked snack.

Senses

tractum is used for these senses in English:

• biscuit (UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sometimes, Canada, rare) A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
• cracker A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).

biscuit — full definition

1. noun A small, flat baked snack, either crisp (British sense, like a cookie) or soft and flaky (American sense, like a scone).
2. noun Unglazed pottery that has been fired once but not yet coated with glaze.
3. noun Slang for a hockey puck.

cracker — full definition

1. noun A thin, crisp, usually savory baked snack.
2. noun A small paper tube that pops and reveals a toy or prize, traditionally pulled apart at Christmas.
3. noun A firecracker.
4. noun Informal, often offensive: a poor white person from the southeastern United States, or, more broadly and offensively, any white person.

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