Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
BOWERING
Verb
bowering
present participle of bower
Source: Wiktionary
BOWER
Bo"wer, n. Etym: [From Bow, v. & n.]
1. One who bows or bends.
2. (Naut.)
Definition: An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.
3. A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm. [Obs.] His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew. Spenser. Best bower, Small bower. See the Note under Anchor.
Bow"er, n. Etym: [G. bauer a peasant. So called from the figure sometimes used for the knave in cards. See Boor.]
Definition: One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre. Right bower, the knave of the trump suit, the highest card (except the "Joker") in the game.
– Left bower, the knave of the other suit of the same color as the trump, being the next to the right bower in value.
– Best bower or Joker, in some forms of euchre and some other games, an extra card sometimes added to the pack, which takes precedence of all others as the highest card.
Bow"er, n. Etym: [OE. bour, bur, room, dwelling, AS. bur, fr. the root of AS. buan to dwell; akin to Icel. bur chamber, storehouse, Sw. bur cage, Dan. buur, OHG. pur room, G. bauer cage, bauer a peasant. *97] Cf.Boor, Byre.]
1. Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment. Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower. Gascoigne.
2. A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat. Shenstone. B. Johnson.
3. A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.
Bow"er, v. t.
Definition: To embower; to inclose. Shak.
Bow"er, v. i.
Definition: To lodge. [Obs.] Spenser.
Bow"er, n. Etym: [From Bough, cf. Brancher.] (Falconry)
Definition: A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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