excursion n Comb excursion bread, ~ biscuit: dry, sweet biscuit, shaped like a cake of 'hard tack.'
   P 184-67 Let's go in the house and get some 'scursion bread. P 108-70 Trouters, hikers, picnickers, school children would generally have a cake of excursion biscuit in the pocket to eat between meals. 1975 Evening Telegram 28 June, p. 16 How I minds comin' down here in the long ago, on your way to the blockhouse, and goin' into Billy Brophy's for a cake of excursion bread.

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