In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BACKLASHED
Adjective
backlashed (not comparable)
Having a backlash.
Verb
backlashed
simple past tense and past participle of backlash
Anagrams
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Source: Wiktionary
BACKLASH
Back"lash`, n. Etym: [Back , adv. + lash.] (Mech.)
Definition: The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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