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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rusk
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even low-sugar rusks can contain up to 15 percent sugar so give crusts of toast or a scrubbed carrot to gnaw on instead.
▪ Hugh Farnham was discovered in a retirement home in Florida, living under an assumed identity, obsessively chewing on his rusks.
▪ Maria, aged 18 months, would drink milk only with a rusk mashed up in her bottle.
▪ The diet should not contain any bread or rusks.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rusk

Rusk \Rusk\, n. [Sp. rosca de mar sea rusks, a kind of biscuit, rosca properly meaning, a screw, spiral.]

  1. A kind of light, soft bread made with yeast and eggs, often toasted or crisped in an oven; or, a kind of sweetened biscuit.

  2. A kind of light, hard cake or bread, as for stores.
    --Smart.

  3. Bread or cake which has been made brown and crisp, and afterwards grated, or pulverized in a mortar.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rusk

"light, crisp bits of bread or biscuit," 1590s, from Spanish or Portuguese rosca "roll, twist of bread," literally "coil, anything round and spiral," of unknown origin, perhaps from a pre-Latin Iberian word.

Wiktionary
rusk

n. 1 a rectangular, hard, dry biscuit 2 a twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp (also called a ''zwieback'') 3 a weaning food for children 4 a cereal binder used in meat product manufacture

WordNet
rusk

n. slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp [syn: zwieback, Brussels biscuit, twice-baked bread]

Gazetteer
Rusk, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 5085
Housing Units (2000): 1539
Land area (2000): 6.822110 sq. miles (17.669182 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.022618 sq. miles (0.058581 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.844728 sq. miles (17.727763 sq. km)
FIPS code: 63848
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 31.798254 N, 95.149865 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Rusk -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 47372
Housing Units (2000): 19867
Land area (2000): 923.548944 sq. miles (2391.980683 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 15.069854 sq. miles (39.030740 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 938.618798 sq. miles (2431.011423 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.156777 N, 94.801410 W
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Rusk, TX
Rusk County
Rusk County, TX
Rusk -- U.S. County in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 15347
Housing Units (2000): 7609
Land area (2000): 913.127694 sq. miles (2364.989771 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 17.766380 sq. miles (46.014711 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 930.894074 sq. miles (2411.004482 sq. km)
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 45.437305 N, 91.136153 W
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Wikipedia
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.

Rusk (disambiguation)

Rusk may refer to:

  • Rusk, a dry biscuit, a twice-baked bread, a children's snack, a cereal binder
Rusk (hair care)

Rusk is a brand of hair care products and devices designed for hair salons. It was founded by Irvine and Rita Rusk.

It is now part of Conair Corporation.

Category:Cosmetics companies of the United States

Usage examples of "rusk".

FBI is going to come down on this case like gangbusters as soon as the man Rusk is sending down from his office gets here.

Produced by James Rusk and David Widger Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed.

I refused to participate in any ceremony honoring a warmonger like Rusk, so I told King I would look around on the edge of the campus for a bar, and then meet them for lunch at the cafeteria for the Law Day luncheon.

SA-2 missiles, Secretary of State Rusk had become so worried over the prospects of a shootdown over or near Cuba that he asked for a meeting of the key players in Operation Mongoose.

Rusk mentioned the incidents and then looked across the table at CIA deputy director Pat Carter.

Spanish Rusk, Eggs, Rice, Juice of Lemons, well put up to cure or prevent the Scurvy, Small Skillets, Pipkins, Porringers and small Frying Pans.

A tall, bony colored woman now entered the kitchen, bearing on her head a basket of rusks and hot rolls.

After Miss Ophelia had taken the rusks, Dinah followed the woman to the door.

Sugar, Nutmeg, Mace, Cinna mon, Pepper and Ginger, White Bisket, Butter, or 'Captains biscuit,' made with wheat flour or Spanish Rusk, Eggs, Rice, Juice of Lemons, well put up to cure or prevent the Scurvy, Small Skillets, Pipkins, Porringers and small Frying Pans.

Emerson's letter to his daughter about the Essex is in his collected letters, edited by Ralph Rusk, vol.

While the storekeeper swung the handle of the pump back and forth, and the fuel rose alternatively into the two one-gallon glass bowls on the top of the pump, his wife came out from the store with a tray of steaming coffee mugs and a platter of crisp golden freshly baked rusks.

Atom Test Ban Treaty signed in Moscow by Dean Rusk, Andrei Gromyko and Sir Alec Douglas-Home, rejected by France and China&hellip.

Atom Test Ban Treaty signed in Moscow by Dean Rusk, Andrei Gromyko and Sir Alec Douglas-Home, rejected by France and China….

Atom Test Ban Treaty signed in Moscow by Dean Rusk, Andrei Gromyko and Sir Alec Douglas-Home, rejected by France and China.