In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
CAUK
Etymology
Noun
cauk (countable and uncountable, plural cauks)
(mineral) An opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar.
Source: Wiktionary
Cauk, n., Cauk"er, n.
Definition: See Cawk, Calker.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; “thematic vowels are part of the stem”
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