In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BOATLIFT
Etymology
Noun
boatlift (plural boatlifts)
The (often clandestine) transportation of a large number of people or amount of goods by boat, especially an exodus of people.
(also boat lift) A mechanism for lifting boats from the water, or between water on different elevations.
Verb
boatlift (third-person singular simple present boatlifts, present participle boatlifting, simple past and past participle boatlifted)
(transitive) To transport (a large exodus of people, etc.) by boat.
Source: Wiktionary
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