ballow (comparative more ballow, superlative most ballow)
(obsolete) Round; pot-bellied.
ballow (plural ballows)
(nautical) Deep water inside a shoal or bar.
Ballow (plural Ballows)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Ballow is the 18858th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1450 individuals. Ballow is most common among White (69.1%), Black/African American (17.86%), and Hispanic/Latino (10.41%) individuals.
Source: Wiktionary
Bal"low, n.
Definition: A cudgel. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
21 June 2025
(noun) the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped); “asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
