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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
rusk
n : slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown
and hard and crisp [syn: {zwieback}, {Brussels biscuit},
{twice-baked bread}]
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Rusk, TX (city, FIPS 63848)
Location: 31.79758 N, 95.14853 W
Population (1990): 4366 (1486 housing units)
Area: 17.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
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