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pancake

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pan·cake  (pnkk)
n.
A thin cake made of batter that is poured onto a hot greased surface and cooked on both sides until brown. Also called flannel cake, flapjack, griddlecake, hotcake; also called regionally battercake.
v. pan·caked, pan·cak·ing, pan·cakes
v.tr.
To cause (an aircraft) to make a pancake landing.
v.intr.
To make a pancake landing.

pancake [ˈpænˌkeɪk]
n
1. (Cookery)
a.  a thin flat cake made from batter and fried on both sides, often served rolled and filled with a sweet or savoury mixture
b.  (as modifier) pancake mix
2. (Cookery) a Scot name for drop scone
3. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Hairdressing & Grooming) a stick or flat cake of compressed make-up
4. (Engineering / Aeronautics) Also called pancake landing an aircraft landing made by levelling out a few feet from the ground and then dropping onto it
vb
(Engineering / Aeronautics) to cause (an aircraft) to make a pancake landing or (of an aircraft) to make a pancake landing

pancake


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