Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
BATTLEDORE
battledore, battledore and shuttlecock
(noun) an ancient racket game
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
battledore (plural battledores)
A game played with a shuttlecock and rackets (properly battledore and shuttlecock); a forerunner of badminton.
The racket used in this game.
(obsolete) A child's hornbook for learning the alphabet.
(historical) A bat or beetle used in washing clothes.
Anagrams
• tetralobed
Source: Wiktionary
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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