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Bannok, n. Also: banak, bannock, bon(n)ok. [OE. bannuc (once), otherwise not recorded till 15th cent. in northern ME. bannok. In mod. use chiefly current in Scotland and the north of England, but also found in East Anglia and south-western counties. Gael. bonnach, bannach, are prob. from Sc.]

1. A flat round cake, usually of barley, oat, or pease meal, and baked on a girdle or ‘back’. (Cf. Bonnock iron.) a1568 Pedder C. 28.
And beir bonnokkis with thame thay tak 1582 St. A. Baxter Bks. 30.
That na brother of the craft … sall … put owt ony bannokis in thair howsis, bot onlie to come to the baikhous 1596 Crim. Trials I. 399.
Quha the samin nycht, buik the meill in bannokis [and] eit thairof 1597 Ib. II. 26.
Scho … tuk the blude of it [sc. a red cock], and scho buke a bannok thairof with floure a1598 Ferg. Prov. 24.
Bannoks is better nor na kin bread 1619 Black Bk. Taymouth 443.
We heir thair is mony slim amongis thaine [sc. ministers], that or thay quyte the bannok thay will quyte a gude conscience 1631 St. A. Baxter Bks. 92.
Act anent the selling of bannokis … The greattest pairt of craft … ordanis George Muffett to pay xls for baiking & selling of gray bannokis c1650 Spalding I. 188.
Thay gat good beir and aill, bruk wp girnellis and book bannokis at good fyres 1676 Grant Chart. 357.
He … tyed vp thrie bannockes and tuo half keabbockes of cheise in hearrop 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. ii. 8.
There lys of oat-meal neer a peck, With waters help which … turns to bannocks, and to oat cakesComb. c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 242 (M).
Bannok beggar, oster dreggar

2. A quantity of meal sufficient for a bannock, due to the servant of a mill from those using it. Also attrib. in bannock malt. 1562 Reg. Great S. V. 120/1.
Officium et servitium molendinorum granariorum de Melros. vocata lie Knaifschipis, necnon cum lie banakis 1605 Edinb. Test. XL. 171 b.
The knaifschip & bannok of the mylne 1611 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 561.
To prive that the milleris … in tyme bygaine was … in vse to lay in the said dam for the bannock 1628 Ib. I. 368.
The myller to sustein his knave vpoun his bonok to be vptakin be the saidis mylleris 1629 Ib. 369.
Na kynd of deutie to be takin heireftir be the fermoraris and the saidis mylleris bot onlie the ordinar multour knaifschip and bannok 1647 Grant Chart. 459.
[To pay multures] kneacheip and bannock [at the mill] 1687 Ayr Charters 70.
That the said multurers … shall duelie and truelie putt in the multure and bannock malt to be uplifted be them in their chists

3. A flat cake (of tallow or wax). 1587 Edinb. Test. XVIII. 165.
Fyve bannok of tauche weyand foure stane 1602 Shetland Sheriff Ct. 18.
The howshald of Firthe ar dempt to quyte them selffis the stowtht of ane bannak talloun 1619 Dundee B. Laws 152.
Ane bannock of wax weighing two ship pounds and three leish pund