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.
CHECKREIN
Etymology
Noun
checkrein (plural checkreins)
A strap used to keep horses' heads high, fashionable in Victorian England but painful and damaging to a horse's neck.
Synonyms
• bearing rein
Source: Wiktionary
Check"rein`, n.
1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.
2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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