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.
BLACKSNAKE
blacksnake, black racer, Coluber constrictor
(noun) blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
blacksnake (plural blacksnakes)
Any of several relatively harmless North American snakes.
(US) A long, tapering whip.
Source: Wiktionary
Black" snake` or Black"snake, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long.
Note: The name is also applied to various other black serpents, as Natrix atra of Jamaica.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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