damper†

[< Australian E]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a kind of bannock.

Quotations

1850

Our fare in the Fort was primitive -- chiefly damper (scorched balls of dough), potatoes, and fish wine, coffee, and tea.

1962

. . . now a meal consisted of tea and "damper," with the Indians reduced to eating roots and fern.