Doughnut

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Doughnut \Dough"nut\, n.
     A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling
     lard.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  doughnut
       n 1: a toroidal shape; "a ring of ships in the harbor"; "a halo
            of smoke" [syn: {ring}, {halo}, {annulus}, {anulus}, {anchor
            ring}]
       2: a small ring-shaped friedcake [syn: {donut}, {sinker}]