biscuit

Meaning

Noun

• A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
• A small, usually soft and flaky bread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet.
• A cracker.
• The "bread" formerly supplied to naval ships, which was made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.
• A form of unglazed earthenware.
• A light brown colour.
• A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to provide gluing surface and strength in shear.
• A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
• A handgun, especially a revolver.
• A puck (hockey puck).

Origin

• From earlier bisket, from Middle English bisquyte, borrowed from Old French bescuit (French biscuit); biscotti.