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.
CATAMARAN
catamaran
(noun) a boat with two parallel hulls held together by single deck
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
catamaran (plural catamarans)
A twin-hulled ship or boat.
(colloquial, rare, obsolete) A quarrelsome woman; a scold.
(obsolete) A raft of three pieces of wood lashed together, the middle piece being longer than the others, and serving as a keel on which the rower squats while paddling.
(obsolete) An old kind of fireship.
Synonyms
• (twin-hulled ship or boat): twinhull
Hypernyms
• (twin-hulled ship or boat): multihull
Hyponyms
• (twin-hulled ship or boat): AC45, AC72
Coordinate terms
• monohull
• outrigger canoe
Source: Wiktionary
Cat`a*ma*ran", n. Etym: [The native East Indian name.]
1. A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations.
2. Any vessel with twin hulls, whether propelled by sails or by steam; esp., one of a class of double-hulled pleasure boats remarkable for speed.
3. A kind of fire raft or torpedo bat. The incendiary rafts prepared by Sir Sidney Smith for destroying the French flotilla at Boulogne, 1804, were called catamarans. Knight.
4. A quarrelsome woman; a scold. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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11 January 2025
COWBERRY
(noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
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