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.
BOMBS
Noun
Bombs
plural of Bomb
Anagrams
• S-bomb, s-bomb
Noun
bombs
plural of bomb
Verb
bombs
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bomb
Anagrams
• S-bomb, s-bomb
Source: Wiktionary
BOMB
Bomb, n. Etym: [F. bombe bombshell, fr. L. bombus a humming or buzzing noise, Gr. .]
1. A great noise; a hollow sound. [Obs.] A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck, would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber beneath. Bacon.
2. (Mil.)
Definition: A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.
3. A bomb ketch. Bomb chest (Mil.), a chest filled with bombs, or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by its explosion.
– Bomb ketch, Bomb vessel (Naut.), a small ketch or vessel, very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be used in naval bombardments; -- called also mortar vessel.
– Bomb lance, a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used in whale fishing.
– Volcanic bomb, a mass of lava of a spherical or pear shape. "I noticed volcanic bombs." Darwin.
Bomb, v. t.
Definition: To bombard. [Obs.] Prior.
Bomb, v. i. Etym: [Cf. Boom.]
Definition: To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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