In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
blunderbusses
plural of blunderbuss
Source: Wiktionary
Blun"der*buss, n. Etym: [Either fr. blunder + D. bus tube, box, akin to G. büchse box, gun, E. box; or corrupted fr. D. donderbus (literally) thunder box, gun, musket.]
1. A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim.
2. A stupid, blundering fellow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 October 2024
(noun) a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it; “the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.