A block of bread after baking.
Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
sugar-loaf
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz Proto-West Germanic *hlaib Old English hlāf Middle English lof English loaf * From Middle English lof, laf, from Old English hlāf (“bread, loaf of bread”), from ...
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