The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
AMERCEMENT
fine, mulct, amercement
(noun) money extracted as a penalty
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
amercement (plural amercements)
A non-statutory monetary penalty or forfeiture.
Source: Wiktionary
A*merce"ment, n. Etym: [OF. amerciment.]
Definition: The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs from a fine,in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.] Blackstone.
Note: This word, in old books, is written amerciament. Amercement royal, a penalty imposed on an officer for a misdemeanor in his office. Jacobs.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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