besetment (countable and uncountable, plural besetments)
The state of being beset.
A common threat to icebreakers is besetment, where they are trapped in the ice and unable to ram the ice to escape.
Source: Wiktionary
Be*set"ment, n.
Definition: The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin. "Fearing a besetment." Kane.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 January 2025
(noun) (obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal; “Cesarean sections are sometimes the result of abnormal presentations”
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.
